Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.
From the record
“Chestertown Historic District is a national historic district located at Chestertown, Warren County, New York. It includes the Fowler Homestead and related outbuildings, the Church of the Good Shepherd, Chester Town Hall, the Fowler cemetery, and centennial monument (1913).”
Wikipedia article Chestertown Historic District (Chestertown, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 76 National Register listings published here for Warren County · listed in 1977 · category: District.
National Register reference number.77000984- 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
116 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Chestertown Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 141 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 16 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
36
Debris and open burning
26
Arson/incendiarism
16
Natural
11
Recreation and ceremony
11
Smoking
7
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
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
8 workings within 5 miles of Chestertown Historic District: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Garnet, Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, Mica. 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
Chestertown, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flood, 1 flash flood.
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.
Flash flooding occurred in Warren County during the evening hours of June13 through the early morning hours of June 14. The flash flooding was focusedfrom central Lake George westward. At 630 PM EST, it was reported that waterwas flowing down Dowen Mountain, and that road culverts were running like rivers.At 730 PM EST, it was reported that Interstate I-87, the Northway, was closed dueto a mud slide between exists 23 and 25. At 812 PM, it was reported that numerousroads were closed in the Bolton and Chestertown due to flooding. At 1205 AM onJune 14, it was reported that Interstate 87, the Northway, was washed out at milepost67, and that vast amounts of water were flowing over the highway.
Heavy rainfall and snow melt occurring over a frozen ground caused flooding in the town of Chester. A portion of Panther Mountain Drive was closed due to impacts from flooding.
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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