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Sherman Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Sherman Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Pittstown Rensselaer County, New York. The complex includes the main house and seven contributing outbuildings.”

Wikipedia article Sherman Farm (Pittstown, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 128 National Register listings published here for Rensselaer County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 35 Sherman Rd., Pittstown, 12185
  • When was it listed? July 2003
  • Category. building
  • Town. Pittstown town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 03000597 - 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

153 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Sherman Farm between 1997 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined74
Arson/incendiarism25
Debris and open burning22
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
16 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer 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 Sherman Farm: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
East of Tomhannock Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
West of Tomhannock Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this property

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pittstown, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPittstown$500,000no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodPittstown$300,000no account filed
August 1996LightningPittstown$25,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindPittstown$10,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindPittstown$5,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPittstown$4,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Pittstown-A local 911 call center operator reported a tree down on Gifford Rd.
June 2023HailPittstown-Around 1 inch hail fell in Pittstown.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindPittstown-Trees were downed in the Pittstown area.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Pittstown-A tree was downed on Route 67.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindPittstown-Tree downed near Croll Road and County Route 111.
July 2017Flash FloodPittstown-Tamarac Road was closed with water running over the road.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindPittstown-Two trees were downed in Pittstown due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPittstown-Trees were downed due to thunderstorm winds in Valley Falls.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPittstown-Trees and wires were reported down in Pittstown due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPittstown-A tree was reported down and on a car due to thunderstorm winds in Pittstown.
May 2013Flash FloodPittstown-Multiple roads were reported to be washed out in Pittstown due to flash flooding.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindPittstown-Trees and wires were reported down in Pittstown due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindEast Pittstown-Six to twelve trees were reported down across County Road 110 in Johnsonville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindPittstown-Trees and wires were reported down in Pittstown due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPittstown-Trees were blown down.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindPittstown-Trees and wires were blown down on Route 93.

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

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 03000597 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rensselaer CountyAll 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.
  • 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.