Copake Grange Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Copake Grange Hall, also known as Copake Grange #935, is a historic Grange hall located at Copake in Columbia County, New York, U.S.A. It was built in 1902-1903, with additions in 1906 and 1921.”
Wikipedia article Copake Grange Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2001 · 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. Empire Rd., S of Old Rte 22, Copake, 12516
When was it listed? July 2001
Category. building
Town. Copake town
National Register reference number. 01000291 - 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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Copake Grange Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	29
Debris and open burning	24
Arson/incendiarism	12
Smoking	5
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	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
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
16 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2003	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Copake Grange Hall: 9 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Zinc, Manganese, Iron. 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	Recorded
Copake Limonite Mine	Iron, Zinc, Manganese	Past Producer
Reynolds Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	Goethite, Limonite
Weed Limonite Mine	Manganese, Iron, Zinc	Past Producer	Goethite, Limonite
Weed Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese, Zinc	Past Producer
Copake Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese, Zinc	Past Producer	Goethite, Limonite
David Parson's Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Occurrence
David Parson's Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Past Producer
Fox Hill Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Occurrence
Fox Hill Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Prospect
Copake Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Copake, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 lightning, 1 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
June 2000	Hail	Copake	$8,000	no account filed
July 1996	Lightning	Copake	$8,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	$6,000	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Copake	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	$5,000	no account filed
May 2021	Lightning	Copake	$1,500	Lightning struck a tree which fell on a house.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	$1,000	A local 911 call center reported a tree down on wires which caught fire near a residence in Copake.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	$1,000	no account filed
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	-	A 60 mph gust was measured at the New York State Mesonet at Copake. Trees and wires were also reported down throughout the town.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	West Copake	-	A tree fell onto wires and caught fire at Four Corners Road between Jackson and Elm.
December 2020	Flood	West Copake	-	Trout Brook Road in Copake was closed near Empire Road.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged camping vehicles by causing a picnic table to become airborne. A golf cart was also overturned as a result of the thunderstorm winds as well.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	-	A tree was downed and blocking the road near Sky Farm Road along County Route 7A in Copake.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	-	Power lines were reported down on Route 7A in Copake due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	-	Power lines were reported down in Copake due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2013	Hail	Copake	-	Half dollar size hail was reported during a thunderstorm at the Ancram Ameri Store on Route 22 in Copake.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	-	One tree was reported down due to thunderstorm winds at the Ancram Ameri Store on Route 22 in Copake.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	-	Trees and multiple power lines were reported down on Main Street (Route 7A) due to thunderstorm winds in Copake.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	-	Trees and wires were reported down on County Route 7A in Copake due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Copake on Route 7A, Farm Road and Mountain View Road due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	West Copake	-	Trees were reported down on Wiltsie Bridge Road near Route 3 in Ancram due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2009	Hail	Copake	-	Nickel size hail was reported in Copake during a thunderstorm.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	-	Fire and Rescue personnel reported that trees and wires were blown down at 4 Corners Road and Pennsylvania Avenue in Copake.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Copake	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Copake due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2004	Lightning	West Copake	-	Power outages due to lightning strikes.
May 2018	Hail	Copake	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1902 USGS Copake quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Copake quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Copake quadrangle1:24000 - 4 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
Copake United Methodist Church and Copake Cemetery	0.1 miles	2007
Copake Memorial Clock	0.2 miles	2012
Copake Railroad Depot	0.6 miles	2024
Sweet-Sherman Homestead (Additional Documentation)	1.3 miles	2022
Copake Falls Methodist Episcopal Church	1.9 miles	2012
Church of St. John in the Wilderness	2.0 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000291 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.