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One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2025 · category: Object.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
The Red Rock Monument
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 321 County Route 24, East Chatham, 12060
- When was it listed? August 2025
- Category. object
- Town. Canaan town
- National Register reference number. 100012134 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
127 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of The Red Rock Monument between 1993 and 2020, burning about 170 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 61 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 11 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 4 August 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 17 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 16 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 15 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of The Red Rock Monument: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Manganese, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canaan Lead Silver Mines | Lead, Silver, Zinc | Producer | Replacement Vein | |
| Gott-Mesick Bog Mn Occurrence | Manganese, Iron | Producer | ||
| Gott-Mesick Bog Mn Occurrence | Manganese, Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Canaan Lead Silver Mines | Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Canaan Pb-Ag Mines | Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Gott-Mesick Bog Mn Occurrence | Manganese | Past Producer | Residual |
Storms near this property
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Chatham, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Chatham | - | Trees and wires were downed along the Albany Turnpike and Decker Street in Chatham. |
| June 2011 | Hail | East Chatham | - | Half dollar size hail was reported during a thunderstorm approximately 2 miles west-northwest of Canaan. The hail broke some windows. |
Maps showing this location
10 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1903 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1933 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Rock Schoolhouse | 0.7 miles | 2022 | |
 | Knollcroft | 2.7 miles | 1985 |
| Pratt Homestead | 2.8 miles | 2009 | |
| New Concord Historic District | 2.9 miles | 2010 | |
| Spencertown Historic District | 3.1 miles | 2018 | |
 | Spencertown Academy | 3.1 miles | 1973 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012134 in Record Group 79. |
| Columbia County | All 155 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.