Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.
From the record
“Mead House is a historic home located at Galway in Saratoga County, New York. It was built about 1825 and is a 2-story, five-by-two-bay timber framed residence.”
Wikipedia article Mead House (Galway, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.04000433- 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
130 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Mead House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 19 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
69
Arson/incendiarism
19
Debris and open burning
16
Natural
10
Recreation and ceremony
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Smoking
2
Equipment and vehicle use
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Mead House: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Galway, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 25 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 flood, 1 lightning.
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.
A cold front swept across eastern New York on the afternoon of the 16th resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of eastern New York. Trees and wires were downed in Frankfort, Edinburg, Galway and Providence, while limbs and wires were downed in Accord and Stoneridge. In Bearsville, thunderstorm winds gusted to between 60 and 65 mph.
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.
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.
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.
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