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Photograph of Sacandaga Railroad Station
Photograph by Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sacandaga Railroad Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 2003 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 136 McKinley Ave., Sacadaga Park, 12134
  • When was it listed? March 2003
  • Category. building
  • Town. Northampton town
  • Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
  • National Register reference number. 03000094 - 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Sacandaga Railroad Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined42
Debris and open burning26
Natural10
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism8
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2015Debris and open burning2.8 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sacandaga Railroad Station: 1 past producer, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Quartz, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crushed Stone ProductsStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tyrell QuarryFeldspar, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Werner ProspectsFeldspar, Stone, QuartzProspect

Every working recorded in Fulton 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.

Listed places nearby

2 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
Northville Historic District0.7 miles2014
Godfrey Shew House5.9 miles2006

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000094 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton CountyAll 25 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.