Church Hill Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 15 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 2021 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Terminal and Church Hill Rds., Halfmoon, 12188
When was it listed? May 2021
Category. district
Town. Halfmoon town
National Register reference number. 100006512 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

748 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 748 fires within 5 miles of Church Hill Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 652 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 142 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	433
Arson/incendiarism	142
Smoking	54
Debris and open burning	39
Natural	35
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
9 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Church Hill Historic District: 8 producers, 7 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bloating Material. 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
Cohoes	Bloating Material	Producer	Sedimentary
Cohoes Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cohoes Mine and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fannucci & Sons Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pinewood Avenue Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pinewood Avenue Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pollock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pollock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cohoes Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Cohoes Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this property

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halfmoon, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 lightning. 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 1999	Lightning	Halfmoon	$50,000	no account filed
August 2000	Flash Flood	Halfmoon	$25,000	no account filed
August 2003	Flash Flood	Halfmoon	$10,000	no account filed
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	$10,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	$5,000	no account filed
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	$3,000	no account filed
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	$500	no account filed
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	-	A tree was reported down on wires along Devitt Road in Waterford.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	-	Several trees were downed along Linda Lane near the Town of Waterford. Additional trees and structural damage was reported along James Drive and Pineview Court.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	-	Trees and wires were downed in the Town of Clifton Park near Halfmoon, including Grooms Road and Spice Mill Boulevard.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	-	Route 236 North and Southbound were closed at Route 9 in the town of Halfmoon due to downed poles and wires.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	-	Power pole was downed near the intersection of Routes 9 and 236 in Halfmoon.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	-	Two trees were downed along Route 236.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	-	A metal sign was blown down in Halfmoon with minor damage to trees due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2013	Flash Flood	Halfmoon	-	A trained spotter reported that an inch and a half of rain from a thunderstorm fell in 20 minutes, resulting in localized flash flooding in Halfmoon.
August 2011	Flood	Halfmoon	-	An emergency was declared by the New York Power Authority at the Visher Ferry Power Dam at Lock 7 because floodwaters engulfed an earthern embarkment which is part of the dam.\|\|Moderate flooding occurred on the Mohawk River at Cohoes. The Cohoes river gage located on right bank at School Street powerplant in Cohoes exceeded its 20 foot flood stage at 5:32 am EST Auguts 29th, its 21 foot moderate flood stage at 8:50 am, crested at 21.86 feet at 1 pm, and dropped below flood stage at 12:15 am August 30th.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	-	A tree was reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds and partially blocked a roadway approximately 5 miles east southeast of Clifton Park.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	-	One large tree was downed due to strong thunderstorm winds in Halfmoon. In addition, several large tree limbs were reported down on wires in Halfmoon.
July 2008	Hail	Halfmoon	-	Penny size hail was reported in Halfmoon during a thunderstorm.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Halfmoon	-	Trees were blown down in the Lexington Commons housing development at Halfmoon.
September 2005	Hail	Halfmoon	-	A trained spotter noted that nickle-sized hail fell at Halfmoon.
July 2004	Hail	Halfmoon	-	no account filed
October 2003	Flash Flood	Halfmoon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saratoga County

Maps showing this location

15 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 Troy North 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
1978 USGS Troy North quadrangle1:24000
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
Oakcliff	0.2 miles	1998
Crescent Methodist Episcopal Church	0.2 miles	2000
Noxon Bank Building	0.3 miles	2003
CATAWISSA (tugboat)	2.7 miles	1996
URGER (canal tugboat)	2.9 miles	2001
Northside Historic District	3.3 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006512 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.