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Wilbor, The, House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“The Wilbor House, also known as The Thompson Farm, is a historic home located at Old Chatham in Columbia County, New York. It was built in around 1790 and is a two-story, five by two bay, heavy timber frame dwelling on a raised fieldstone foundation.”
Wikipedia article The Wilbor House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1997 · 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. 0.25 mi. NE of jct. of I-90 and Thorne Rd., Old Chatham, 12136
When was it listed? June 1997
Category. building
Town. Chatham town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 97000567 - 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

125 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Wilbor, The, House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 133 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 16 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	58
Debris and open burning	20
Arson/incendiarism	16
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Chatham, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
July 2014	Lightning	Old Chatham	$1,000	A lightning strike was reported to have downed wires across Albany Turnpike in Chatham.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Chatham	-	Trees were reported down on Rock City Road as well as County Route 13 near Spath Street in the town of Chatham.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Chatham	-	Trees were reported down on County Route 13 in the town of Chatham as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Chatham	-	Trees and power lines were reported down on Hamilton Lane in the town of Chatham as a result of thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1903 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1933 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS East Chatham quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
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
John S. Williams House and Farm	1.3 miles	1996
Spengler Bridge	2.3 miles	1973
Riders Mills Historic District	2.4 miles	2000
Rowe-Lant Farm	2.9 miles	2010
Van Valkenburgh, James G. House	3.0 miles	2002
New Concord Historic District	3.7 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000567 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.
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.