Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
From the record
“Becker-Westfall House, also known as Westfall House, is a historic home and tavern located at Schoharie in Schoharie County, New York, United States. It is a brick structure built in 1784, with a two-story, three-bay rectangular block and a one-story, three-bay wing.”
Wikipedia article Becker-Westfall House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79001631- 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
96 since 1996
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Becker-Westfall House
between 1996 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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
37
Debris and open burning
21
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Smoking
10
Arson/incendiarism
8
Natural
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
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
7 workings within 5 miles of Becker-Westfall House: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Strontium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite. 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
Schoharie, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 22 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail.
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.
Numerous roads were closed across Schoharie County due to flash flooding. These included, but were not limited to, Creek Road to Esperance and to the Montgomery County line, Treadlemire Road to Middleburgh, Junction Road, Zicha Road, Sanatarium Road to Esperance and Schoharie, Benninger Road, Barton Hill Road, Sheldon Road, and portions of Route 30.
A trained spotter recorded a wind gust of 74 MPH during a thunderstorm in the village of Schoharie. The wind downed one tree at this spotter's location as well.
Roads were closed within the village of Schoharie due to flash flooding. A state of emergency was declared and travel was strongly discouraged due to debris blocking roadways within the village.
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.
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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