Fort Plain Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Fort Plain Historic District is a national historic district located at Fort Plain in Montgomery County, New York. When first listed it encompassed 536 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 1 contributing structure, and 2 contributing objects in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of the village of Fort Plain.”
Wikipedia article Fort Plain Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 2022 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Portions of Abbott, Canal, Hancock, Beck, Clyde, Douglas, Edwards, Erie, Garfield, Hancock, Henry, Herkimer, High, Main, Reid, River, Roof, State, Wagner, Webster, Willett, and Witter Sts.., Clark, Clinton, Gilbert, Silk, and Waddell Aves., Fort Plain, 13452
When was it listed? October 2022
Category. district
National Register reference number. 12000510 - 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

56 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Fort Plain Historic District between 1994 and 2018, burning about 110 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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	17
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
3 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 July 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
24 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Plain, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Plain	$50,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Plain	$5,000	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Plain	$4,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1901 USGS Lassellsville quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Lassellsville quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1945 USGS Lassellsville quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Oppenheim quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gloversville 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
First Methodist Episcopal Church of St. Johnsville	5.4 miles	2013
St. Johnsville Historic District	5.5 miles	2019
Bates-Englehardt Mansion	5.5 miles	1989
Margaret Reaney Memorial Library	5.5 miles	2012
Nellis Tavern	5.5 miles	1990
US Post Office-St. Johnsville	5.6 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000510 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 62 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.