Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer House and Mill Complex
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer House and Mill Complex is a historic home and mill complex consisting of 14 interrelated buildings located at Claverack in Columbia County, New York.”
Wikipedia article Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer House and Mill Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82003352- 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
254 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer House and Mill Complex
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 407 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 17 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
110
Natural
37
Debris and open burning
35
Smoking
23
Equipment and vehicle use
20
Arson/incendiarism
17
Recreation and ceremony
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
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
8 workings within 5 miles of Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer House and Mill Complex: 5 producers, 3 past producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Claverack, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 lightning.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A weak trough rippling through a very unstable air mass, touched off a round of thunderstorms in the Mid Hudson Valley on the afternoon of June 30. One of the storms became severe in Columbia County. Thunderstorm winds brought telephone poles, wires and large tree limbs down.
Heavy rains and snowmelt produced a rapid run off of water into the Clavercak Creek in Coumbia county. As a result, the creek overflowed its banks and flooded portions of Webb Road.
A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team confirmed a downburst in Claverack. Damage was mainly confined to downed trees, with powerlines and trees down near the intersection of Route 9H and Route 23. Wind speeds were estimated at 85 MPH.
Numerous trees were reported down in Claverack due to strong thunderstorm winds. State Route 23 and State Route 23B were closed due to multiple trees down. Twenty houses were damaged by fallen trees.
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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