Nathan Garnsey House

Built in 1789 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Nathan Garnsey House is a historic home located near Rexford, Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1789, and is a two-story, five-bay, double-pile, Federal style brick dwelling painted white.”
Wikipedia article Nathan Garnsey House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1789, Federal architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Garnsey, Nathan, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1453 NY 146, Rexford, 12148
When was it listed? January 2012
Category. building
Town. Clifton Park town
When was it built? 1789
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 11001025 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

476 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 476 fires within 5 miles of Nathan Garnsey House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 441 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 89 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	244
Arson/incendiarism	89
Smoking	35
Misuse of fire by a minor	26
Natural	25
Debris and open burning	21
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Recreation and ceremony	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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
7 September 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 September 2005	Natural	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2001	Smoking	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this property

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rexford, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Rexford	$15,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Rexford	$5,000	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Rexford	-	A tree was downed along Route 146 and Riverview Road in the Rexford section of Clifton Park.
August 2023	Funnel Cloud	Rexford	-	A funnel cloud was observed looking westward on Clifton Country Road. No damage was spotted.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rexford	-	Trees were downed.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rexford	-	A large oak tree was uprooted and several cedar trees were downed.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rexford	-	A tree was downed onto service wires to a residence.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rexford	-	Tree and wires downed on Riverview Road.
May 2013	Flash Flood	Rexford	-	Law Enforecement reported flash flooding along Riverview Road in Rexford from showers and thunderstorms.
June 2009	Hail	Rexford	-	Penny size hail was reported in Rexford during a thunderstorm.
August 2018	Hail	Rexford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saratoga County

Maps showing this location

16 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 Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1930 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1947 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Niskayuna quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1954 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
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
Cyrus Rexford House	1.5 miles	2011
Clifton Park Center Baptist Church and Cemetery	2.0 miles	2004
Mohawk Valley Grange Hall	2.8 miles	2012
Grooms Tavern Complex	2.8 miles	2000
Smith's Grain and Feed Store	2.8 miles	2012
Calvary Episcopal Church	2.9 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11001025 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.