Henry W. Livingston House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Livingston House, also known as "The Hill", is a historic home located at Livingston in Columbia County, New York. It was built in 1803 and is a massive, two-story brick dwelling coated in stucco.”
Wikipedia article Henry W. Livingston House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Livingston, Henry W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N of Bell's Pond, Livingston, 12534
When was it listed? February 1971
Category. building
Town. Livingston town
National Register reference number. 71000536 - 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Henry W. Livingston House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 289 acres in total. 22 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	52
Debris and open burning	24
Natural	22
Smoking	14
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
28 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 August 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	4.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Henry W. Livingston House: 10 producers, 10 past producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Hudson Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Hudson Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
F.H. Stickles & Son S & G Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
F.H. Stickles & Son S & G Pit & Mil	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Fabiano Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kearny Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Burden No. 2 Carbonate Iron Mine	Iron, Sulfur	Producer	Calcite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite
Burden No. 2 Carbonate Iron Mine	Iron, Sulfur	Past Producer
Burden No. 3 Iron Carbonate Mine	Iron, Sulfur	Producer	Calcite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite
Burden No. 3 Iron Carbonate Mine	Iron, Sulfur	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Livingston, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 20 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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	Livingston	$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.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	$175,000	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	$24,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	$20,000	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Livingston	$10,000	no account filed
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	Trees and wires were reported down in a few locations in the Town of Livingston.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	A tree was reported down on wires in the town of Livingston.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	Trees and wires were reported down on County Route 10.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	A tree and wires were downed on County Route 10.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	Trees and wires were blown down on Orchard Road.
June 2014	Hail	Livingston	-	Nickel size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Livingston.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	One tree was reported down and across a road in Livingston due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	A tree was reported down in Livingston as a result of thunderstorm winds.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	The tops of small trees were sheared off a result of thunderstorm winds in Livingston.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	Numerous trees were reported down in Livingston due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	A tree was reported down and blocking Route 9 in Livingston due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	Multiple trees and wires were reported down in Columbia due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	Wires and tree limbs were reported down in Livingston due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	Trees and wires were reported down on Route 9 in Livingston due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	Trees blown down in the vicinity of Mills Road and Bingham Hill Road.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	Large tree limbs down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Livingston	-	Large tree limbs down.
May 2004	Lightning	Livingston	-	Numerous power outages due to lightning strikes.
May 2018	Hail	Livingston	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Livingston	-	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.

1902 USGS Copake quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Copake quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1947 USGS Claverack quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Claverack quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Claverack quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
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
Van Rensselaer, Henry (Hendrick) I., House	0.9 miles	1993
Conyn Van Rensselaer House	1.6 miles	2009
Glenco Mills Methodist Church	1.9 miles	2019
Linlithgo Reformed Church of Livingston	2.6 miles	2006
Jacob P. Mesick House	2.8 miles	1997
Harmon Miller House	2.8 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000536 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.