Christian Hess House and Shoemaker's Shop

Built in 1783. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Christian Hess House and Shoemaker's Shop, also known as the Christian Hess Homestead and Weaver House, is a historic home and commercial building located at Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York. The house was built about 1783, and is a banked, timber frame dwelling in a traditional New World Dutch style.”
Wikipedia article Christian Hess House and Shoemaker's Shop, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1783.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Hess, Christian, House and Shoemaker's Shop - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 111 Stony Brook Rd., Schoharie, 12157
When was it listed? June 2015
Category. building
Town. Schoharie town
When was it built? 1783
National Register reference number. 15000369 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

96 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Christian Hess House and Shoemaker's Shop between 1999 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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	35
Debris and open burning	21
Arson/incendiarism	12
Smoking	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
3 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 July 2003	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Christian Hess House and Shoemaker's Shop: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Strontium, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Schoharie Pyrite Deposit	Sulfur, Barium-Barite	Occurrence
Schoharie Strontianite Deposit	Strontium, Barium-Barite	Occurrence
Schoharie Strontianite Occurrence	Strontium	Occurrence
Howes Cave Number 6 Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Masick Quarry and Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Schoharie No. 3 Quarry and Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Howe's Cave Quarry No. 19	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Howes Cave Number 6 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Masick Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Schoharie No. 3 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this property

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schoharie, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 22 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail. 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
July 2008	Flash Flood	Schoharie	$50,000	Numerous roads were closed across Schoharie County due to flash flooding. These included, but were not limited to, Creek Road to Esperance and to the Montgomery County line, Treadlemire Road to Middleburgh, Junction Road, Zicha Road, Sanatarium Road to Esperance and Schoharie, Benninger Road, Barton Hill Road, Sheldon Road, and portions of Route 30.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	$15,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	$10,000	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	$10,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	$1,000	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	Wires were downed leading to a brush fire.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	Branches and limbs were down. Also dime size hail was reported.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	Large tree limbs were down at Main St. and Bridge St.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	Trees were downed.
June 2021	Hail	Schoharie	-	Dime size hail was reported in Schoharie.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	A couple of trees were downed on Schoharie Hill Road near the Village of Schoharie.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	Tree was down onto wires.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	Trees were downed.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	A tree and large tree limbs were downed on Sunnyside Road.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	Two trees were downed.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	Multiple trees and branches were reported down in Schoharie as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	A trained spotter recorded a wind gust of 74 MPH during a thunderstorm in the village of Schoharie. The wind downed one tree at this spotter's location as well.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	A tree and wires were reported down in Schoharie due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	A trees and wires were reported down during a thunderstorm in Schoharie.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Schoharie due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Schoharie	-	Roads were closed within the village of Schoharie due to flash flooding. A state of emergency was declared and travel was strongly discouraged due to debris blocking roadways within the village.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	Trees and wires were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Schoharie.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Schoharie due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2011	Hail	Schoharie	-	Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Schoharie.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	Trees were reported down along State Route 443 near Schoharie due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Schoharie	-	Large trees and power lines were reported down in Schoharie due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Schoharie County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1898 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1900 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:31680
1943 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1946 USGS Schoharie 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
Johannes Jr. Lawyer House	0.9 miles	2016
Marshall D. Bice House	1.2 miles	2017
Jacob T. Miers House	1.2 miles	2015
Lasell Hall	1.3 miles	2002
Old Lutheran Parsonage	1.3 miles	1972
St. Paul's Lutheran Church Historic District	1.4 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000369 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.
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.