Ancramdale Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2019 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. NY 82, Cty. Rd. 3 & 8, Maple Ln., Ancramdale, 12503
When was it listed? November 2019
Category. district
Town. Ancram town
National Register reference number. 100004668 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Ancramdale Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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	28
Debris and open burning	25
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
24 June 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Ancramdale Historic District: 20 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Manganese, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ancram Lead Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Molybdenum	Producer	Replacement Vein
Ancram Lead Mines	Silver, Copper, Lead, Molybdenum	Past Producer
Ancram Pb Mine	Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Weed Limonite Mine	Manganese, Iron, Zinc	Past Producer	Goethite, Limonite
Dakin Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese, Zinc	Past Producer
Kelly Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese, Zinc	Past Producer
Dakin Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese, Zinc	Past Producer	Goethite, Limonite
Kelly Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese, Zinc	Past Producer	Goethite, Limonite
David Parson's Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Occurrence
David Parson's Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ancramdale, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2004	Lightning	Ancramdale	1 hurt	20 year old man struck by lightning. Hospital EKG confirmed the victim was struck with nearly 15,000 volts.
March 2008	Flood	Ancramdale	$10,000	Heavy rainfall led to flooding across portions of Columbia county, which led to several road closures. Some of the roads that were closed included State Route 82 in Ancramdale, State Route 295 in Canaan, and Routes 22 and 23 in Hillsdale.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Ancramdale	-	A large tree branch was blocking the road near Over Mountain Road and East Ancram Road.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Ancramdale	-	A tree was downed through the roof of a house.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Ancramdale	-	Trees and wires were downed.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ancramdale	-	A tree was reported down on County Route 8A in the town of Ancram due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Ancramdale	-	Skyline Drive near Ancramdale was closed as a result of flash flooding from heavy rainfall.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Ancramdale	-	Finkle Road, two miles east of Pachin Mills, was reportedly washed out and closed as a result of flash flooding from heavy rainfall.

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.

1902 USGS Copake quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Copake quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Copake 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 Pittsfield 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
Silvernail Homestead	1.8 miles	2010
Simons General Store	3.3 miles	1973
Ancram Hamlet Historic District	3.3 miles	2017
St. John's Lutheran Church	3.3 miles	2009
Gallatin Reformed Church & Cemetery	5.7 miles	2021
Copake Railroad Depot	5.9 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004668 in Record Group 79.
Columbia County	All 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.