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Photograph of Fort Edward station
Photograph by Russ Nelson, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Edward D&H Train Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

Sources: 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. East and Wing Sts., Fort Edward, 12828
  • When was it listed? December 2000
  • Category. building
  • Town. Fort Edward town
  • National Register reference number. 00001527 - 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.

Then and now

1895 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Fort Edward D&H Train Station, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet covering Fort Edward D&H Train Station, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

312 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 312 fires within 5 miles of Fort Edward D&H Train Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 239 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 53 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/undetermined156
Arson/incendiarism53
Smoking24
Recreation and ceremony20
Natural17
Equipment and vehicle use16
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.9 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2015Smoking1.1 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fort Edward D&H Train Station: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Marble, Dimension, 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
Glen Falls Quarry & Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Morgan Lumber & Lime Company QuarryLimestone, General, Marble, DimensionPast Producer1882, 1975
Chesterton Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Iuliucci PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Glens Falls QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Glens Falls QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Jointa Stone Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Sandy Hill QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Edward, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Edward$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Edward$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindFort Edward$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
St. James Episcopal Church0.3 miles1998
Wing-Northup House0.3 miles2008
Old Fort House0.6 miles1983
US Post Office-Hudson Falls2.1 miles1989
Hudson Falls Historic District2.2 miles1983
Moss Street Cemetery3.7 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001527 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 52 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.