Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
From the record
“Van Alen Farm is a historic home and farm complex at Stuyvesant in Columbia County, New York, United States. The house was built about 1760 and is typical of Dutch homes built during the period.”
Wikipedia article Johannis L. Van Alen Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.73001175- 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
210 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Johannis L. Van Alen Farm
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 243 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 31 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
94
Arson/incendiarism
31
Debris and open burning
24
Natural
18
Railroad operations and maintenance
16
Equipment and vehicle use
11
Smoking
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Recreation and ceremony
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
15 workings within 5 miles of Johannis L. Van Alen Farm: 8 producers, 7 past producers.
8 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Stuyvesant, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 19 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 tornado.
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.
Training thunderstorms produced excessive rainfall, and major flash flooding across northern and central portions of Columbia County during Wednesday afternoon and night. The heavy rainfall also led to Kinderhook Creek overflowing its banks.||Numerous roadways were closed due to flooding, which included, but were not limited to, Route 28, Route 13 near Albany Turnpike, Route 295 near Schillings Crossing Road, Hennett Road, McCagg Road, Gun Road, and Novak Road in Chatham, Route 9H near Fischer Road, East Shore Drive, and State Route 203 near Chapel Drive in Kinderhook, State Route 20 near the Speedway in New Lebanon, and Route 9J in Stuyvesant. Novak Road in Kinderhook and Reed Road in Ghent were reportedly washed out.||Numerous campers were stranded in water and mud within the parking area and adjacent camping area at Lebanon Valley Speedway in New Lebanon.||In addition, in Red Rock, County Route 5 at County Route 24 was closed due to a mudslide, and in Hollowville, County Route 16 was also closed due to a mudslide.||The severe flooding also led to the declaration of a state of emergency for the towns of Stuyvesant, Kinderhook, and New Lebanon.||Preliminary damage estimates in Columbia County from the flash flooding were in excess of $4 million.
One lane of Route 9J was reported closed due to flooding and debris in the road just south of Stuyvesant. The nearby railroad tracks were also reported flooded.
Flooding from previous heavy rainfall continued from Wednesday night into Friday morning. Numerous roadways remained closed, and many basements were pumped out during this time.||As a result of the flooding, Amtrak train service was suspended early Thursday morning on July 30th between the Rensselaer Rail Station and Penn Station, in order for track and signal systems to be examined for flood damage in Hudson. The rail service resumed by early Thursday afternoon.
Training thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall across northern Columbia County. A large section of Route 9J near Stuyvesant was closed due to flash flooding from this intense rainfall.
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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