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Photograph of Mellenville Railroad Station
Photograph by HunnySWeaver, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mellenville Railroad Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Mellenville, now known as Mellenville Grange, is a historic train station and Grange located in the hamlet of Mellenville, in the town of Claverack in Columbia County, New York. It was built in around 1900 by the Boston and Albany Railroad on their Hudson Branch.”

Wikipedia article Mellenville station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2000 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 217, Mellenville, 12534
  • When was it listed? September 2000
  • Category. building
  • Town. Claverack town
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 00001120 - 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

234 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Mellenville Railroad Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 366 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined99
Debris and open burning42
Natural34
Equipment and vehicle use20
Smoking15
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mellenville Railroad Station: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Brick Tavern-Mount Ida Limestone QuStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Brick Tavern-Mount Ida Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Philmont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Philmont Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mellenville, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
August 1996LightningMellenville$15,000no account filed
November 2010Tornado (EF1)Mellenville$4,000A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team confirmed an EF1 tornado in the town of Ghent. Although the path length was approximately 2 miles, damage was intermittent along the line. The most concentrated damage was observed at the intersection of Soller Heights Road and County Road 9. Damage was mainly confined to downed trees, although some damage to shingles and siding were noted.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMellenville-A tree was reported down on Route 217 near Coons Road. Damage was due to strong winds from an outflow boundary.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMellenville-A tree was reported down on Roxbury Road in Claverack. Damage was due to strong winds from an outflow boundary.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindMellenville-Trees and utility wires were reported down at Roxbury Road in Claverack due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindMellenville-Trees and utility wires were reported down and on a house on Atlantic Avenue in Stockport due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2011Flash FloodMellenville-Route 217 was reported flooded north of Route 23 in Claverack.
June 2008HailMellenville-Penny to nickel size hail was reported in Mellenville during a thunderstorm.

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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001120 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.