A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1967. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
From the record
“The Luykas Van Alen House is a historic Dutch Colonial farmhouse at 2589 New York State Route 9H in the town of Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York, United States. Built about 1737 and enlarged about 1750, it is one of the finest surviving examples of Dutch colonial architecture in upstate New York.”
Wikipedia article Van Alen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1967 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number. 67000011 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
137 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Luycas Van Alen House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 176 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 24 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
47
Debris and open burning
30
Arson/incendiarism
24
Natural
17
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Smoking
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Luycas Van Alen House: 1 producer, 1 past producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Kinderhook, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 28 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flood, 2 tornado.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Heavy rain led to widespread flooding of small streams and creeks across the county, including Kinderhook Creek, and Claverack Creek, beginning Sunday evening on the 15th, and persisted through Tuesday evening on the 17th. This led to numerous road closures throughout the county, including New York State Route 66 between Bridge Street in Greenport, and the Fish and Game Road in Claverack. The most widespread flooding occurred mainly south of Route 23. In addition, numerous basements were reported retaining water near Stockport along Sotckport Creek.|Furthermore, a bridge at the intersection of County Road 16 and 23 collapsed in Hollowville due to high water along Claverack Creek around 2015 EST on the 15th.|The Town of Greenport wastewater treatment plant also sustained severe damage from the flooding of Claverack Creek.
Heavy rainfall led to flooding in portions of Columbia county. Several roads were reportedly closed, including Route 9 in Kinderhook and Clermont, Route 203 near Chatham, and Route 9H near Claverack.
Hail up to quarter size hail was reported in Kinderhook during a thunderstorm.||This large hail, which lasted for up to 30 minutes duration, led to significant damage to tree fruits, berries and vegetables in and near Kinderhook, with preliminary damage estimates exceeding $5 million.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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.
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.
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