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Photograph of Copake Iron Works Historic District
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Copake Iron Works Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Copake Iron Works Historic District is a national historic district located at Copake Falls in Columbia County, New York. The district includes 11 contributing buildings, three contributing sites, eight contributing structures, and three contributing objects.”

Wikipedia article Copake Iron Works Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Taconic State Park, Copake Falls, 12517
  • When was it listed? April 2007
  • Category. district
  • Town. Copake town
  • National Register reference number. 07000334 - 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Copake Iron Works Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism15
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Other causes1

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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
16 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Copake Iron Works Historic District: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zinc, Manganese, Iron, Manganese, Zinc. 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
Copake Limonite MineIron, Manganese, ZincPast ProducerGoethite, Limonite
Copake Limonite MineIron, Zinc, ManganesePast Producer
Weed Limonite MineManganese, Iron, ZincPast ProducerGoethite, Limonite
Weed Limonite MineIron, Manganese, ZincPast Producer
Copake MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Hillsdale Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Hillsdale MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Weed MineIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Copake Falls, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 1997Tornado (F1)Copake Falls$60,000no account filed
September 2022Thunderstorm WindCopake Falls-Multiple trees were reported down along Farm Road and Route 7 in Copake.
August 2018Heavy RainCopake Falls-Total 24 hour rainfall reports ranged from 0.90 inches to 1.62 inches across Columbia county.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCopake Falls-A tree was reported to be down and across Twin Bridges Road in the town of Copake due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2018HailCopake Falls-no account filed
June 2000HailCopake Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

9 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 07000334 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia CountyAll 155 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.