DuBois Stone House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“The DuBois Stone House is located at 347 West Main Street, in Catskill, New York, on the west side of Catskill Creek. It was built in 1762 by Huybartus DuBois and Cornelius DuBois, sons of Benjamin DuBois, one of the original white settlers of the area.”
Wikipedia article DuBois Stone House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1995 · 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. 347 W. Main St., Catskill, 12414
When was it listed? November 1995
Category. building
Town. Catskill town
Architectural style. American colonial architecture
National Register reference number. 95001336 - 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

272 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 272 fires within 5 miles of DuBois Stone House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 370 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 29 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	111
Debris and open burning	71
Arson/incendiarism	29
Natural	20
Smoking	16
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of DuBois Stone House: 17 producers, 17 past producers, 2 occurrences. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
South Potic Mountain Blue Ss Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Austin's Glen Deposit	Quartz	Occurrence
Diamond Hill Deposit	Quartz	Occurrence
Fabiano Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kearny Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hudson Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
North Catskill Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
North Catskill Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
West Athens Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
West Athens Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

58 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Catskill, the town this property stands in, in 58 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 26 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 9 flash flood, 6 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
August 2001	Lightning	Catskill	$50,000	Lightning from a thunderstorm struck a house in Catskill, Green County on the evening of August 31. The lightning resulted in a fire on the porch and also damaged electronic equiment.
May 1999	Lightning	Catskill	$50,000	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	$30,000	no account filed
August 2003	Flash Flood	Catskill	$25,000	no account filed
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	$10,000	A tree was downed onto a house with partial structural collapse. This occurred in the Village of Catskill.
August 2003	Flash Flood	Catskill	$10,000	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	$8,000	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Catskill	$8,000	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Catskill	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	$5,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Catskill	$4,000	no account filed
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	$3,000	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Catskill	$2,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	$2,000	no account filed
August 2018	Flash Flood	Catskill	$1,000	Reports of street flooding, and flooding with damage to an assisted living facility.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	$500	no account filed
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	A local 911 Call Center relayed a report to NWS Albany of a downed tree on Route 23A in the town of Catskill.
April 2023	Flood	Catskill	-	Minor poor drainage flooding and standing water on roadways was reported near the Village of Catskill.
May 2023	Flood	Catskill	-	Minor poor drainage flooding and standing water on roadways was reported near the Village of Catskill.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	Route 9W at Division Street was closed due to downed trees.
December 2020	Flood	Catskill	-	Water was over a roadway at Dutchmen's Landing.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	Tree was downed on Route 9W, south of Catskill.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	A tree was downed on Route 9W.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	Multiple trees and limbs were downed in the village, some onto houses.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	Trees were reported down.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	Trees and power lines were downed due to thunderstorm winds at 5 Pleasant Drive in Catskill.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Catskill due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	A tree was downed due to thunderstorm winds on Grandview Avenue in Catskill.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	A tree was reported down in Catskill as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Catskill	-	Route 9W (West Bridge Street) in Catskill was closed due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall. One foot of water was flowing across the roadway.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	Trees and wires were reported down on Hamburg Road in Catskill as a result of thunderstorm winds.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	Trees and wires were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Catskill.
September 2011	Flash Flood	Catskill	-	Numerous roads were reported closed county-wide due to flooding as small streams overflowed their banks. This included but was not limited to the following: Route 42 in Lexington from County Route 13A to the Ulster County line with two bridges over the West Kill damaged, Route 32 over the Kaaterskill Creek in Catskill and Route 23A over the Kaaterskill Creek in the Town of Hunter.
June 2011	Hail	Catskill	-	Nickel size hail (measured) was reported during a thunderstorm in Catskill.
June 2011	Hail	Catskill	-	Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm by a WeatherNet6 observer in Catskill.
August 2011	Flood	Catskill	-	Route 9W was closed due to flooding from Route 23A in Catskilll to the Ulster County border.
January 2010	Flash Flood	Catskill	-	Many small creeks were reported overflowing onto nearby roadways in Catskill. In addition, the Catskill Creek was reported at bankfull in the Village of Catskill.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	Trees and wires were reported down on Grandview Avenue in Catskill due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2009	Flash Flood	Catskill	-	West Main Street in the Village of Catskill along the Catskill Creek was closed due to flash flooding.
July 2009	Flood	Catskill	-	Route 23, Hamburg Road, Allen Street, and West Main Street in Catskill were reported partially closed due to flooding from to heavy rainfall.
June 2008	Hail	Catskill	-	Nickel size hail was reported near Catskill during a thunderstorm.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	Power lines, along with a large tree limb, were reported down in Catskill due to strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2008	Hail	Catskill	-	Nickel size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Catskill.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	Trees were reported down along Route 23A in Catskill due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	Trees were reported down on Route 23 in Catskill due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	A trained spotter indicated many large tree limbs that were down due to strong thunderstorm winds in Catskill. The spotter also observed nickel size hail.
August 2007	Hail	Catskill	-	A trained spotter measured nickel size hail in Catskill, and also reported many large tree limbs down due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2006	Flood	Catskill	-	Law enforcement personnel reported that several roads in Greene County were closed in, and near the towns of Catskill, Cairo and Haines Falls due to flooding.
July 2005	Flash Flood	Catskill	-	Interstate 87 north and south bound lanes closed between mile marker106 and 107 due to flooding. Washout at Embought and Route 9W. Pavementwashed out and poles and wires down on Old Kings Road, south of Route 23Ato the Ulster County line .
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	Trees were blown down throughout the county.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Catskill	-	Trees blown down.
September 2004	Flash Flood	Catskill	-	Catskill Creek flooded Cauterskill Road. Person trapped in car, Fire and Rescue on scene.
June 2001	Hail	Catskill	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Catskill	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Catskill	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Catskill	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Catskill	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Catskill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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 Hudson South quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1980 USGS Hudson South quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Pittsfield 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
Benjamin DuBois Stone House-Captain Martin Stone House	under 500 feet	1995
Wiley Hose Company Building	0.1 miles	1995
Commercial Building at 32 West Bridge Street	0.2 miles	1995
Joseph Hallock House	0.2 miles	1995
David Van Gelder Octagon House	0.2 miles	1998
East Side Historic District	0.4 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001336 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.
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.