Peck House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Peck House is a historic Greek Revival-style home located in the hamlet of North Chatham in Columbia County, New York. It was reconstructed about 1848 and is an imposing, 2-story, symmetrical, five-bay-wide and one-bay-deep dwelling with a substantial rear wing.”
Wikipedia article Peck House (Chatham, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1999 · 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 203, Chatham, 12132
When was it listed? July 1999
Category. building
Town. Chatham town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 99000869 - 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

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Peck House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 215 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 41 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	105
Arson/incendiarism	41
Debris and open burning	24
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	15
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Peck House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Kenneth Morris Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Kenneth Morris Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

54 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chatham, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 38 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 5 hail, 3 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
August 2008	Flash Flood	Chatham	$45,000	Several roads were closed in various portions of Columbia County due to flash flooding from very heavy rainfall.\|\|In Hillsdale, Rodman, Wolf Hill, and Pumpkin Roads were closed due to significant flooding. A high volume of water, seven feet deep and backed up over a 20 acre swamp, was believed to have burst from a beaver dam, sending a cascade of water down Wolf Hill Road.\|\|In addition, School Street in Chatham was also closed due to flooding.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	$15,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	$10,000	no account filed
July 2022	Lightning	North Chatham	$5,000	A suspected lightning strike split a tree in half which then fell onto a home causing damage on Eberle Road.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	$5,000	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	$4,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	$2,000	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	$2,000	no account filed
July 2014	Lightning	Old Chatham	$1,000	A lightning strike was reported to have downed wires across Albany Turnpike in Chatham.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	-	A local 911 call center reported a tree and wires down on Slate Hill Road at Route 66 in Ghent.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	-	Wires were downed along Route 203 near Route 32 in Chatham.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	-	A tree and wires were downed along Route 203 near Crestview Drive near Niverville.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	-	Tree and wire damage was reported along Little Lake Road near Route 203 near North Chatham.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	-	Tree and wire damage was reported along Jefferson Hill Road near Route 23 near Malden Bridge.
June 2023	Hail	Chatham	-	One inch hail fell in Chatham.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	-	Trees and wires were reported down in multiple locations in the Town of Chatham.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	-	A trained spotter reported an estimated thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	-	A tree was snapped and came down on wires connected to a residential home.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	-	Trees were reported down at multiple locations in Chatham.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	-	A utility pole and power lines were reported down on East Shore Drive.
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 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	-	A tree was reported down on Elm Street near Chatham.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	East Chatham	-	Trees and wires were downed along the Albany Turnpike and Decker Street in Chatham.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Chatham	-	State Route 66 at the intersection of Dardess Drive was flooded.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	-	Two large trees were downed in Chatham.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	-	Route 203 was closed due to a tree downed on wires.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	-	Trees were downed in several locations throughout Columbia County.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Chatham	-	Route 66 was closed in Village Center due to heavy rain.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Chatham	-	State Route 66 was closed at Payn Ave due to flooding.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Chatham	-	State Route 66 was closed to Highbridge Road due to flooding.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	-	Numerous wires down in Ghent.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	-	Trees and power lines were reported down on Electric Park Road on the east side of Kinderhook Lake in Niverville as a result of thunderstorm winds.
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	Hail	North Chatham	-	Nickel size hail was reported during a thunderstorm at 433 Rapp Road North in the town of Kinderhook.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	-	Trees and wires were downed at the intersection of Round Lake Road and County Route 28B in the hamlet of Niverville as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	-	Trees and utility poles were downed near a farm located at 433 Rapp Road North in the town of Kinderhook as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2015	Funnel Cloud	Chatham	-	A funnel cloud was spotted during a thunderstorm from the front of a supermarket to the north of Ghent. The funnel cloud never reached the ground.
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.
May 2013	Hail	Chatham	-	A spotter reported half dollar size hail fell from a thunderstorm in Chatham.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	-	Numerous trees and wires were reported down in Chatham as a result of thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Chatham due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Hail	East Chatham	-	Half dollar size hail was reported during a thunderstorm approximately 2 miles west-northwest of Canaan. The hail broke some windows.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	-	A tree was reported down on a property in North Chatham due to strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	-	Trees were reported down in Chatham due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	-	A large tree and wires were reported down across Bunker Hill Road in North Chatham due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	-	An estimated wind gust of 65 mph was reported by a storm chaser during a thunderstorm in Niverville. Also, a tree was reported down on wires.
July 2009	Flood	Chatham	-	A roadway was flooded at Elm Street and Payne Avenue in Chatham due to heavy rainfall.
July 2009	Flash Flood	Chatham	-	Heavy rain resulted in flash flooding in Chatham at the intersection of Elm Street and Payne Avenue.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatham	-	Trees were reported down in Chatham as a result of strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chatham	-	Trees and wires were reported down from thunderstorm winds on Route 32 in North Chatham.
June 2004	Lightning	Chatham	-	Telephone outages due to lightning strikes.
June 2002	Hail	Chatham	-	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 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 Kinderhook quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Kinderhook 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
Spengler Bridge	3.5 miles	1973
John S. Williams House and Farm	3.6 miles	1996
Riders Mills Historic District	3.7 miles	2000
Van Valkenburgh, James G. House	4.0 miles	2002
Wilbor, The, House	4.3 miles	1997
First Presbyterian Church	4.7 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000869 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.