Copake Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 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 2024 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 32 County Route 7A, Colpake, 12516
When was it listed? January 2024
Category. building
Town. Copake town
National Register reference number. 100009779 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Copake Railroad Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
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
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
16 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2003	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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 Copake Railroad Depot: 11 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Zinc, Iron, Manganese. 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
Copake Limonite Mine	Iron, Zinc, Manganese	Past Producer
Weed Limonite Mine	Manganese, Iron, Zinc	Past Producer	Goethite, Limonite
Kelly Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese, Zinc	Past Producer	Goethite, Limonite
Kelly Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese, Zinc	Past Producer
Reynolds Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	Goethite, Limonite
Weed Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese, Zinc	Past Producer
Copake 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
Fox Hill Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Occurrence

Every working 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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, 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
Copake Grange Hall	0.6 miles	2001
Copake United Methodist Church and Copake Cemetery	0.7 miles	2007
Copake Memorial Clock	0.8 miles	2012
Sweet-Sherman Homestead (Additional Documentation)	1.9 miles	2022
Copake Falls Methodist Episcopal Church	2.1 miles	2012
Church of St. John in the Wilderness	2.2 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009779 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.