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Photograph of Albertus Van Loon House
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Albertus Van Loon House

Built in 1724. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“The Albertus Van Loon House is a 1.5 story native stone home in the village of Athens, New York, United States. Built in 1724 by Albertus Van Loon, one of eight children of Jan Van Loon, it is one of the oldest extant buildings in its part of New York State.”

Wikipedia article Albertus Van Loon House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1724.

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. Van Loon, Albertus, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. N. Washington St., Athens, 12015
  • When was it listed? November 1980
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Village of Athens MRA
  • Town. Athens town
  • When was it built? 1724
  • National Register reference number. 80002619 - 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

263 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Albertus Van Loon House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 323 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined119
Debris and open burning46
Smoking25
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural18
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Albertus Van Loon House: 10 producers, 10 past producers, 2 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Austin's Glen DepositQuartzOccurrence
Diamond Hill DepositQuartzOccurrence
Fabiano PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kearny PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plass Hill Carbonate Iron MineIron, SulfurProducerCalcite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite
Plass Hill Carbonate Iron MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Plass HillIronPast ProducerResidual
Brick Tavern-Mount Ida Limestone QuStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Brick Tavern-Mount Ida Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Catskill Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Athens, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2001LightningAthens$100,000no account filed
June 2001LightningAthens$50,000no account filed
August 2003Flash FloodAthens$25,000no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindAthens$15,000no account filed
July 2003Tornado (F1)Athens$10,000no account filed
December 2023FloodWest Athens$3,000County Route 74 was closed in the Town of Athens due to flooding.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAthens$3,000Trees were downed in the Town of Athens. This occurred along an outflow boundary ahead of thunderstorms.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindAthens-Route 385 North and Southbound were closed due to downed wires.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindAthens-Trees and wires were reported down in Athens due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2013HailAthens-Half dollar size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Athens.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAthens-Multiple trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Athens.
August 2008HailAthens-Penny size hail was reported at Sleepy Hollow Lake near Athens during a thunderstorm.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Zion Lutheran Churchunder 500 feet1980
Stranahan-DelVecchio Houseunder 500 feet1980
Athens Lower Village Historic District0.6 miles1980
Brick Row Historic District0.8 miles1980
Haxton-Griffin Farm1.9 miles2012
William Brandow House1.9 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002619 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene CountyAll 101 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.