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Mountainside Free Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Warren County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3090 NY 9L, Queensbury, 12845
  • When was it listed? November 2021
  • Category. building
  • Town. Queensbury town
  • National Register reference number. 100007099 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1895 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Mountainside Free Library, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet covering Mountainside Free Library, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

215 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Mountainside Free Library between 1992 and 2020, burning about 188 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined83
Arson/incendiarism26
Debris and open burning25
Natural21
Smoking21
Recreation and ceremony16
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkPROSPECT MOUNTAIN
24 September 2014Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNew York Forest RangersFRENCH MOUNTAIN #1
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
17 September 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Mountainside Free Library: 8 producers, 6 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Quartz, Sulfur-Pyrite, Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mount Hope MineIron, Quartz, Sulfur-Pyrite, FeldsparPast Producer1879, 1881
Potter MineSulfur-Pyrite, IronPast Producer1879
Mount Hope MineIronPast Producer
Podunk MineIronPast Producer1869, 1872
Podunk MineIronPast Producer
Potter MineIronPast Producer
Elms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Havens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mallorys PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mclaughlin Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this property

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Queensbury, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 7 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Thunderstorm WindQueensbury$50,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindQueensbury$5,000Severe thunderstorms moved across parts of eastern New York ahead of a low pressure system which was moving into the area during the afternoon hours of July 30th. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines with Washington and Herkimer Counties being hardest hit. In Colonie torrential rains resulted in an urban flood as storm drains backed up.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindQueensbury$5,000A low pressure system moved northeast from the Ohio Valley on the morning of June 27th resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of eastern New York. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines with Vestal in Broome County and Fort Edward in Washington County being the areas hardest hit. In Vestal well over 100 trees were downed by thunderstorm winds and in Fort Edward a tree fell crushing a parked car.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindQueensbury$5,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindQueensbury$5,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindQueensbury$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindQueensbury$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Owl's Nest0.1 miles1971
FORWARD shipwreck site (motor launch)1.3 miles2008
Royal C. Peabody Estate2.0 miles1984
Wiawaka Holiday House2.3 miles1998
Lake George Battlefield Park Historic District3.0 miles2011
MOHICAN II (steamboat)3.1 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100007099 in Record Group 79.
Warren CountyAll 76 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.