Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
From the record
“Ritchie House is a historic home located at Plattsburgh in Clinton County, New York. It was built between 1856 and 1869 and is a two-story, frame dwelling on a stone foundation in the Gothic Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Z. Ritchie House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 53 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82001111- 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
291 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 291 fires within 5 miles of Z. Ritchie House
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 219 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 52 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
175
Arson/incendiarism
52
Debris and open burning
19
Smoking
14
Natural
14
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Other causes
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
22 workings within 5 miles of Z. Ritchie House: 18 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Plattsburgh, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain.
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 trees downed by thunderstorm winds across Cumberland Head and local state park as well as damaged docks and boats at the Treadwell marina. Several trees and large branches fell on camp sites within state park with only a few minor injuries reported.
Numerous trees reported down throughout Plattsburgh as well as power lines. Very heavy rainfall caused some localized street flooding in poor drainage areas.
Trees down, wind gusts estimated to 70 mph and quarter size hail reported (and videotaped) by local television station situated along Route 9 about 1 mile north-northeast of Plattsburgh.
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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