Built in 1825 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“Brownell-Cornell-Gibbs Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Buskirk, Rensselaer County, New York. The farmhouse was built between about 1800 and 1825, and consists of a two-story, banked, rectangular frame main block with an attached large two-story woodshed.”
Wikipedia article Brownell-Cornell-Gibbs Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 128 National Register listings published here for Rensselaer County · listed in 2012 · category: District · built in 1825, Federal architecture.
Also known as. Farmsteads of Pittstown, New York MPS
Town. Pittstown town
When was it built? 1825
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number.12000796- 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
132 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Brownell-Cornell-Gibbs Farmstead
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 274 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 22 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
63
Arson/incendiarism
22
Debris and open burning
18
Natural
12
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Smoking
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
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. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Brownell-Cornell-Gibbs Farmstead: 3 producers, 2 past producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Buskirk, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 flood, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
The Hoosic River at Eagle Bridge rose above flood stage, reaching moderate flood stage during the late afternoon hours on December 18 to the early morning hours on December 19. Water overflowed onto River Road next to the Buskirk covered bridge as well as County Route 103 between Route 67 and the covered bridge. In addition, houses were flooded near Eagle Bridge. Newspaper reported flood waters partially submerging a truck and trailer in Buskirk. Portions of Buskirk-West Hoosick Road were also closed.
An ice jam on the Hoosic River broke loose and flooded Route 103 with ice and water between Route 67 and the covered bridge over the Hoosic River. A water rescue was performed for a vehicle stuck in moving water.
At 2036 LST on Wednesday February 13th, Rennselaer County Emergency Management officials reported water flowing over the banks of the Hoosic River near the Buskirk Bridge. The water flowed through a cornfield and affected several buildings near Buskirk.||The flooding was the result of an ice jam that obstructed the flow of water in the Hoosic River, causing the water to back up behind the jam and overflow the banks of the river. Heavy rain exacerbated this situation.||The ice jam resulted in flooding on County Route 103 in Rensselaer County.
Flooding continued along Route 103 between Route 67 and the covered bridge over the Hoosic River due to an earlier ice jam breaking loose. Flood waters slowly receded as the ice jam moved downstream, but water remained over the road until the 15th.
Major flooding occurred on the Hoosic River. The Eagle Bridge river gage located on the right bank 0.5 miles upstream from Case Brook, 1.2 miles downstream from Walloomsac River, and 1.2 miles southeast of Eagle Bridge exceeded its 11 foot flood stage at 1:31 pm EST August 28th, its 13 foot moderate flood stage at 3:43 pm, its 16 foot major flood stage at 6:31 pm, it crested at 19.24 feet at 12:30 am August 29th, and dropped below flood stage at 2:29 pm August 29th.
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.
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.
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.
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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