Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.
From the record
“Swart House and Tavern is a historic home and tavern located at Glenville in Schenectady County, New York. It consists of a long, 2-story, rectangular gable-roofed structure with a rear wing.”
Wikipedia article Swart House and Tavern, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 87 National Register listings published here for Schenectady County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.06001211- 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
167 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Swart House and Tavern
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. 11 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/undetermined
100
Arson/incendiarism
25
Equipment and vehicle use
13
Natural
11
Debris and open burning
6
Smoking
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Recreation and ceremony
1
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
5 workings within 5 miles of Swart House and Tavern: 3 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. 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
Glenville, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 24 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 wildfire.
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 dry, breezy day allowed a small fire to briefly rage out of control near Glenville, Schenectady County on April 17. The blaze scorched between four and six acres of grasslands, and threatened several homes west of the Glendale Nursing Home. Some residents of the nursing home were evacuated. There was no structural damage nor injuries reported to the National Weather Service.
A tornado touched down in the Town of Florida in Montgomery County. It moved northeast to the western end of Glenville in Schenectady County. Damage was extensive along the entire path length, with the worst damage in the Town of Cranesville in Montgomery County. Damage included numerous trees snapped off and uprooted, broken windows to homes, shingles stripped off roof tops, and some houses which had parts of their roofs torn off. Numerous sheds and out buildings were destroyed.
Heavy rain led to minor flooding of small streams and creeks across portions of the county, as well as some road closures, beginning Monday morning, and lingering until Monday night.|Some of the roads that were closed included Maple Avenue between Ronald Regan Way and Freemans Bridge Road, and Bolt Road between Swaggertown Road and Sacandaga Road.
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.
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.