Noxon Bank Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Noxon Bank Building is a historic bank building located at Crescent in Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1842 and is a three-story, square, hipped roof structure of brick and stone in the Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Noxon Bank Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 9 Terminal Rd., Crescent, 12188
When was it listed? December 2003
Category. building
Town. Halfmoon town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 03001247 - 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

751 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 751 fires within 5 miles of Noxon Bank Building between 1994 and 2020, burning about 653 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 139 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	436
Arson/incendiarism	139
Smoking	55
Debris and open burning	40
Natural	37
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Noxon Bank Building: 9 producers, 6 past producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bloating Material. 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
Cohoes	Bloating Material	Producer	Sedimentary
Cohoes Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cohoes Mine and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fannucci & Sons Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fort Ferry Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Fort Ferry Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pollock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pollock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cohoes Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Cohoes Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crescent, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1994: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Crescent	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Crescent	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saratoga County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1893 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1929 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1947 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Troy North 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 Troy North 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
Crescent Methodist Episcopal Church	under 500 feet	2000
Oakcliff	0.1 miles	1998
Church Hill Historic District	0.3 miles	2021
CATAWISSA (tugboat)	2.8 miles	1996
URGER (canal tugboat)	3.0 miles	2001
School No. 5 "The Little Red Schoolhouse"	3.3 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001247 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saratoga County	All 83 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.