Valley Falls Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

One of 128 National Register listings published here for Rensselaer County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. State, Burton, Charles & Edward Sts., Valley Falls, 12185
When was it listed? November 2018
Category. district
Town. Pittstown town
National Register reference number. 100003118 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

176 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Valley Falls Historic District between 1997 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 28 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	88
Debris and open burning	29
Arson/incendiarism	28
Natural	16
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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 2002	Other causes	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Valley Falls Historic District: 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Burrello Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
East of Tomhannock Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Melrose Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Melrose Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
North of Melrose Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Unnamed Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Unnamed Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
West of Tomhannock Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this property

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valley Falls, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2014	Flash Flood	Valley Falls	$10,000	Heavy rain led to flash flooding on North Street in Valley Falls. Rapid runoff led to the erosion of the ground beneath a hundred year old, two-apartment house. The home's owner estimated that about 300 cubic yards of land was lost beneath the home in about a five minute period. Although the home's foundation remained intact, a small porch lost all the ground underneath it.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Valley Falls	-	Several large tree limbs were downed onto a house on Powder Mill Road.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Valley Falls	-	A tree was reported down due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Valley Falls	-	Trees and wires were reported down on Master Street, one mile north of the village of Valley Falls in the town of Schaghticoke, as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2011	Hail	Valley Falls	-	Half dollar size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Valley Falls, just east of Schaghticoke.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Valley Falls	-	Trees and wires down.

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1893 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1929 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1947 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Schaghticoke quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
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
Adams-Myers-Bryan Farmstead	0.6 miles	2013
Tomhannock Methodist Episcopal Church	2.3 miles	2014
Baum-Wallis Farmstead	3.0 miles	2013
Howard-Odmin-Sherman Farmstead	3.4 miles	2014
Cannon-Brownell-Herrington Farmstead	3.5 miles	2013
Thomas-Wiley-Abbott Farmstead	3.6 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003118 in Record Group 79.
Rensselaer County	All 128 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.