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Hickory Hill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Hickory Hill is a historic home located at Clermont in Columbia County, New York. The house was built in 1859 and is a square, two-story, frame residence with a distinctive three-bay pedimented facade in a late Greek Revival style.”

Wikipedia article Hickory Hill (Clermont, New York), 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. Buckwheat Bridge Rd., Clermont, 12526
  • When was it listed? October 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Clermont MRA
  • Town. Clermont town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 83003934 - 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning27
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2010Natural2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 2006Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hickory Hill: 5 producers, 5 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Elizaville Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
F.H. Stickles & Son S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
F.H. Stickles & Son S & G Pit & MilSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Burden No. 2 Carbonate Iron MineIron, SulfurProducerCalcite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite
Burden No. 2 Carbonate Iron MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Burden No. 3 Iron Carbonate MineIron, SulfurProducerCalcite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite
Burden No. 3 Iron Carbonate MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Mount Tom Carbonate Iron MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Mt. Tom Carbonate Iron MineIron, SulfurProducerCalcite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite
Mt. Tom Mine/Burden2/Burden3/Livington/Cedar Hill MinesIronPast ProducerLimonite, Siderite

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.

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

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

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.

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
Old Parsonage0.1 miles1983
Bouwerie0.3 miles1983
Thomas Brodhead House0.3 miles1983
St. Luke's Church0.6 miles1983
Clermont Civic Historic District0.6 miles2003
Clermont Academy0.6 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83003934 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia CountyAll 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.