Terpenning-Johnson House and Cemetery

Built in 1810. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Terpenning-Johnson House and Cemetery is a historic home and family cemetery located at Brooker Hollow, Schoharie County, New York, United States. The main block was built about 1845, and is a two-story, five-bay, dwelling with a side wing built about 1810.”
Wikipedia article Terpenning-Johnson House and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie County · listed in 2013 · category: District · built in 1810.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Terpenning--Johnson House and Cemetery - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 674 Brooker Hollow Rd., Brooker Hollow, 12149
When was it listed? February 2013
Category. district
Town. Richmondville town
When was it built? 1810
National Register reference number. 12001260 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Terpenning-Johnson House and Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 4 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	40
Debris and open burning	18
Arson/incendiarism	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Other causes	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
9 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
27 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SUMMIT HAY BALES
28 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United 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.

1904 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1944 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1945 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Richmondville United Methodist Church	2.2 miles	2006
Bunn-Tillapaugh Feed Mill	2.2 miles	2006
House at 461 Spruce Lake Road	3.2 miles	2015
Bute-Warner-Truax Farm	4.8 miles	1985
Cobleskill Historic District	7.4 miles	1978
Peter A. Hilton House	7.7 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001260 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schoharie County	All 52 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.