Calvary Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 85 Lake Hill Rd., Burnt Hills, 12027
When was it listed? January 2017
Category. building
Town. Ballston town
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 100000498 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

343 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 343 fires within 5 miles of Calvary Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 374 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 66 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	194
Arson/incendiarism	66
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Debris and open burning	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	12
Natural	12
Recreation and ceremony	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2005	Natural	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
24 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Calvary Episcopal Church: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Aqueduct Schenectady Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Sedimentary
	Round Lake Clay Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this property

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnt Hills, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnt Hills	$6,000	no account filed
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnt Hills	$5,000	Strong winds blew down a transformer.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnt Hills	$5,000	A severe thunderstorm struck southern Saratoga and eastern Schenectady Counties during the afternoon of August 20th resulting in downed trees and powerlines and large hail. The severe thunderstorm left thousands of customers in the area without power.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnt Hills	$5,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnt Hills	$1,500	A tree was downed on a house in Orchard Park.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnt Hills	-	Tree and wires downed at Charlton Road and Goode Street.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnt Hills	-	A tree was reported down on Goode Street in Ballston Center as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnt Hills	-	Trees were reported down on Lake Hill Road in Burnt Hills due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnt Hills	-	Three trees were reported down just northeast of Burnt Hills due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnt Hills	-	Wires and one tree were reported down in Burnt Hills due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 1994	Hail	Burnt Hills	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saratoga County

Maps showing this location

16 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 Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1930 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1947 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Burnt Hills quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1954 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
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
Nathan Garnsey House	2.9 miles	2012
Jonesville Store	3.5 miles	2011
Jonesville Cemetery	3.6 miles	2014
Cyrus Rexford House	3.6 miles	2011
Smith's Grain and Feed Store	3.8 miles	2012
Charlton Historic District	4.1 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100000498 in Record Group 79.
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.