McKownville-Country Club Highlands Historic District

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,168 fires within 5 miles of McKownville-Country Club Highlands Historic District between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,218 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 155 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.

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

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 5,539 specimens collected within 10 miles of McKownville-Country Club Highlands Historic District between 1760 and 1975: 3,173 Animalia, 1,518 Fungi, 778 Plantae, 34 Unrecorded, 18 Chromista, 12 Protozoa, 6 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A. A. Heller and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Diplodia crataegi Fuckel	1895	Charles E. Fairman
	Cephalozia media Lindb.	1898	Charles H. Peck	near Albany
	Coniothyrium Corda, 1840	1899	not recorded
	Hemaris thysbe Fabricius, 1775	1760	W.W. Hill
	Monotropa procera Torr.	1817	E. James	Near Albany
	Fontinalis duriaei Schimp.	1825	H. H. Eaton
	Geastrum hygrometricum Pers.	1827	H. H. Eaton	Troy
	Acalypha rhomboidea Raf.	1828	J. Hall	Troy
	Alnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd.	1828	J. Hall	Troy
	Apocynum androsaemifolium L.	1828	J. Hall	Troy
	Apocynum cannabinum L.	1828	J. Hall	Troy
	Asclepias amplexicaulis Sm.	1828	J. Hall	Troy

All 5,539 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of McKownville-Country Club Highlands Historic District: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Every working recorded in Albany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guilderland, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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.

Every storm recorded in Albany County

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 Albany quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
• 1895 USGS Albany quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Albany quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
• 1927 USGS Albany quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
• 1947 USGS Albany quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Albany quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Albany quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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 Albany quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Albany quadrangle1:24000

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Chapel House	0.2 miles	1982
	Rapp Road Community Historic District	1.4 miles	2002
	Lustron Houses of Jermain Street Historic District	1.7 miles	2009
	Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church	2.4 miles	2008
	St. Andrew's Episcopal Church	2.6 miles	2005
	First Congregational Church of Albany	3.1 miles	2014