Charles H. Coons Farm

Built in 1810. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Coons Farm, also known as the Prospect Fruit Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Germantown, Columbia County, New York. The main farmhouse was built about 1880, and is a two-story, rectangular frame dwelling with Italianate style design elements.”
Wikipedia article Charles H. Coons Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2015 · category: District · built in 1810.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Coons, Charles H., Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 516 Church Ave., Germantown, 12526
When was it listed? July 2015
Category. district
Town. Germantown town
When was it built? 1810
National Register reference number. 15000475 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Charles H. Coons Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 156 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 21 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	72
Arson/incendiarism	21
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Natural	8
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2010	Natural	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 July 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Charles H. Coons Farm: 17 past producers, 15 producers. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Clay, Iron. 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
Paul Blum Cementon Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Saugerties Blue Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Burden No. 2 Carbonate Iron Mine	Iron, Sulfur	Producer	Calcite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite
Burden No. 2 Carbonate Iron Mine	Iron, Sulfur	Past Producer
Mount Tom Carbonate Iron Mine	Iron, Sulfur	Past Producer
Mt. Tom Carbonate Iron Mine	Iron, Sulfur	Producer	Calcite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite
Mt. Tom Mine/Burden2/Burden3/Livington/Cedar Hill Mines	Iron	Past Producer	Limonite, Siderite
Malden On Hudson Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Malden On Hudson Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Parrs Shale Bank	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Germantown, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	$300,000	Severe thunderstorms moved across central and eastern New York during the late morning and early afternoon of the 4th ahead of a powerful cold front. At Norrie State Park in Staatsburg 75 to 100 trees were blown down. Central Hudson Electric and Gas Company reported over 16,000 customers without power during the height of the storms. Other areas hit hard by the storms were Livingston and Germantown in Columbia County where numerous trees were toppled some of which fell on homes.
May 2000	Lightning	Germantown	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	$5,000	no account filed
December 2023	Flood	Germantown	$2,000	State Route 9G was closed in the Town of Clermont.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	$2,000	no account filed
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	A couple of trees and wires were downed in the Town of Germantown.
July 2023	Hail	Germantown	-	A trained spotter reported a quarter inch size hail near Germantown.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	North Germantown	-	Trees and wires were reported down on Hover Ave.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	Trees were reported down across Route 9G.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	A tree was downed onto a house on Hilltop Road.
January 2019	Flood	North Germantown	-	Route 9G was closed between Camp Creek Road and Maple Avenue due to flooding.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	A tree and wires were downed on Viewmont Road in the town of Germantown.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	North Germantown	-	A tree was reported down.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	A tree was reported down on Mountainview Road in Germantown due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	Trees were reported down in Germantown due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2012	Hail	Germantown	-	Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Germantown.
June 2011	Hail	Germantown	-	Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Germantown.
June 2011	Hail	Germantown	-	Half dollar size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Germantown.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees, power lines and some power poles near Germantown.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	A tree fell on a house in Germantown, due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1895 USGS Catskill quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1934 USGS Catskill quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1938 USGS Catskill quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1941 USGS Catskill quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Clermont quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1986 USGS Pittsfield 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
Stone Jug	1.1 miles	1978
Coons House	1.3 miles	1983
Clarkson Chapel	1.3 miles	1983
Barringer-Overbaugh-Lasher House	1.8 miles	2014
Dick House	2.0 miles	2009
Simeon Rockefeller House	2.1 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000475 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.