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Photograph of Mohawk Valley Grange Hall
Photograph by Vijay Nayak, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mohawk Valley Grange Hall

Built in 1896 (Victorian 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

“Mohawk Valley Grange Hall, also known as Union Hall and Moser Hall, is a historic Grange hall located near Grooms Corners, Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1896, and is a 1 1/2-story, three bay by four bay, timber frame building.”

Wikipedia article Mohawk Valley Grange Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1896, Victorian architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. 274 Sugar Hill Rd., Grooms Corners, 12148
  • When was it listed? April 2012
  • Category. building
  • Town. Clifton Park town
  • When was it built? 1896
  • Architectural style. Victorian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 12000245 - 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

567 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 567 fires within 5 miles of Mohawk Valley Grange Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 458 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 122 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/undetermined286
Arson/incendiarism122
Smoking47
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Debris and open burning28
Natural27
Equipment and vehicle use12
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony5

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mohawk Valley Grange Hall: 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pollock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Crescent Clay PitClayProducer
Niskayuna Clay PitClayProducer
Niskayuna Clay PitClayPast Producer
Verdun Clay PitClayProducer
Verdun Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working 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 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
Grooms Tavern Complexunder 500 feet2000
Clifton Park Center Baptist Church and Cemetery1.7 miles2004
Abraham Best House1.7 miles2011
School No. 5 "The Little Red Schoolhouse"2.5 miles2025
Nathan Garnsey House2.8 miles2012
Cyrus Rexford House2.8 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000245 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saratoga CountyAll 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.
  • 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.