Zadock Pratt House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Zadock Pratt House, also known as the Zadock Pratt Museum, is a historic home located at Prattsville in Greene County, New York. It was originally built in 1828 as a two-story, five-bay Federal style residence.”
Wikipedia article Zadock Pratt House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1986 · 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Pratt, Zadock, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Main St., Prattsville, 12468
When was it listed? August 1986
Category. building
Town. Prattsville town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 86001654 - 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

44 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Zadock Pratt House between 1999 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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	14
Debris and open burning	11
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
14 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
20 July 2013	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 June 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prattsville, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 4 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Prattsville	$55,000	no account filed
December 2023	Flood	Prattsville	$5,000	County Route 2 was closed near Lexington due to flooding.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Prattsville	$5,000	no account filed
August 2024	Flash Flood	Prattsville	$500	A local 911 call center reported the closure of Mattice Road in Prattsville due to flooding.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Prattsville	-	Eight to ten roads were closed due to flooding around Prattsville.
December 2020	Flood	Prattsville	-	Fire Department crews evacuated 20 to 25 residents along County Route 7 in Prattsville due to rising waters on the Schoharie Creek.
December 2020	Flood	Prattsville	-	Route 23 had both lanes closed due to high water from the Delaware County line to County Route 2 in Prattsville.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Prattsville	-	Multiple trees were downed in Prattsville as a result of thunderstorm winds.
October 2010	Flood	Prattsville	-	Major flooding occurred on the Schoharie Creek at Prattsville. Prattsville crested at 17.38 feet at 0645 LST on October 1st. Flood stage is 12 feet.\|\|Route 23 was reported closed due to flooding north and south of the Village of Prattsville as water overflowed the banks of the Schoharie Creek.
September 2004	Flash Flood	Prattsville	-	Route 2 closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Greene County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1901 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1945 USGS Prattsville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1946 USGS Prattsville quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
Old Episcopal Manse	under 500 feet	2000
Prattsville Commercial Building	0.2 miles	1996
Prattsville Reformed Dutch Church	0.2 miles	1996
John and Martinus Laraway Inn	0.4 miles	2012
Pratt Rock Park	1.1 miles	1992
Morss Homestead/Federal City Homestead	1.9 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001654 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 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.
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.