Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Niskayuna station is a historic railway station located at Niskayuna in Schenectady County, New York. It was possibly built in 1843 by the Schenectady and Troy Railroad and renovated or replaced in the 1880s.”
Wikipedia article Niskayuna station, 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.07001205- 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
731 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 731 fires within 5 miles of Niskayuna Railroad Station
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 774 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 126 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
407
Arson/incendiarism
126
Smoking
68
Natural
41
Debris and open burning
31
Equipment and vehicle use
24
Misuse of fire by a minor
22
Power generation/transmission/distribution
11
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
11 workings within 5 miles of Niskayuna Railroad Station: 7 producers, 4 past producers.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Niskayuna, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flood, 1 flash flood.
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.
NWS Albany Meteorologists contacted the Schenectady County Warning Point to seek more information about flooding from an ice jam that had been reported on by a local news team. The warning point relayed that Rosendale Road was closed between Mohawk Road and Niskayuna Road due to the same ice jam.
A tree along Troy-Schenectady Road (New York State Route 7) in Niskayuna was struck by lightning. As a result, the tree fell and downed power lines as well. The road was temporarily closed due to the downed tree and wires.
Thunderstorm heavy rainfall led to flash flooding in Niskayuna. Fire department crews rescued two people trapped in a vehicle surrounded by high water on Merlin Drive in Niskayuna.
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.
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