Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Potter Hollow District No. 19 School is a historic one-room school building located near Potter Hollow, Albany County, New York. It was built in 1853, and is a 1 1/2-story, rectangular timber frame building on a stone foundation.”
Wikipedia article Potter Hollow District No. 19 School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 11000993 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
65 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Potter Hollow District No. 19 School
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 14 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
25
Arson/incendiarism
14
Debris and open burning
9
Natural
8
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Smoking
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 963 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Potter Hollow District No. 19 School between 1860 and 1975: 727 Animalia, 219 Plantae, 10 Protozoa, 7 Fungi.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, Arnett Jr., R. H. (Ross H.), Charles G. Oliver 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Potter Hollow, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2022: 2 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.
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.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
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