Elmbrook Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Elmbrook Farm is a historic farm complex located at Schodack in Rensselaer County, New York. The farmhouse itself was built about 1830 and modified about twenty years later to include Greek Revival architecture.”
Wikipedia article Elmbrook Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 128 National Register listings published here for Rensselaer 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

Address. 2567 Brookview Rd., Schodack, 12033
When was it listed? May 2001
Category. building
Town. Schodack town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 01000551 - 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

423 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 423 fires within 5 miles of Elmbrook Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 348 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 86 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	232
Arson/incendiarism	86
Debris and open burning	30
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Natural	23
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Elmbrook Farm: 7 producers, 4 past producers, 1 plant, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Quartz. 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
Crystal Hill Deposit	Quartz	Occurrence
East Greenbush Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
East Greenbush Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Rensselaer Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Rensselear Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Beberwick Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
C.E. Wicks Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Castleton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Haight Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Route 20 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Maps showing this location

15 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1893 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1925 USGS Troy quadrangle1:48000
1928 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS East Greenbush 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
1978 USGS East Greenbush quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Albany 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
Blink Bonnie	0.6 miles	2000
Joachim Staats House and Gerrit Staats Ruin	1.9 miles	1978
John Jr. Carner House	4.6 miles	2004
Fort Crailo	4.7 miles	1966
Harder Manufacturing Company-Albany Woolen Company Inc. Building	4.7 miles	2021
Aiken House	4.7 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000551 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rensselaer County	All 128 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.