Clarkson Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Clarkson Chapel is located on New York State Route 9G in Clermont, New York, United States, just across from the Coons House. It is a mid-19th century wooden building in the Carpenter Gothic style.”
Wikipedia article Clarkson Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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.
Address. NY 9G, Clermont, 12526
When was it listed? October 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Clermont MRA
Town. Clermont town
Architectural style. Carpenter Gothic
National Register reference number. 83003920 - 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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Clarkson Chapel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 136 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 27 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	85
Arson/incendiarism	27
Debris and open burning	17
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2010	Natural	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Clarkson Chapel: 16 producers, 16 past producers. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Limestone, General, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Paul Blum Cementon Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Saugerties Blue Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Alsen Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Catskill Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Catskill Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cementon - Alsen Limestone Quarries	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Cementon Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Saugerties Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
West Camp Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Glasco Clay Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clermont, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Clermont	$100,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Clermont	$5,000	no account filed
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Clermont	-	Trees were downed in multiple locations in the Town of Clermont.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Clermont	-	Trees were downed.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Clermont	-	Trees and wires blown down.
May 2018	Hail	Clermont	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Clermont	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1895 USGS Catskill quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1934 USGS Catskill quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1938 USGS Catskill quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1941 USGS Catskill quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Saugerties quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS Saugerties quadrangle1:24000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Coons House	0.1 miles	1983
Stone Jug	0.7 miles	1978
Clermont Estates Historic District	1.2 miles	1979
Charles H. Coons Farm	1.3 miles	2015
Clermont	1.4 miles	1971
Barringer-Overbaugh-Lasher House	2.8 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003920 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia County	All 155 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.