Auclair-Button Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Auclair-Button Farmstead is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Melrose, Rensselaer County, New York. The original section of the farmhouse was built about 1785, with the main block built in 1849.”
Wikipedia article Auclair-Button Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 128 National Register listings published here for Rensselaer County · listed in 2013 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Auclair--Button Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 80 Auclair Way, Melrose, 12121
When was it listed? June 2013
Category. district
Also known as. Farmsteads of Pittstown, New York MPS
Town. Pittstown town
National Register reference number. 13000360 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

228 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Auclair-Button Farmstead between 1993 and 2020, burning about 215 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 28 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	111
Debris and open burning	42
Arson/incendiarism	28
Smoking	16
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Auclair-Button Farmstead: 8 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Melrose Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Unnamed Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Unnamed Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Unnamed Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Fanes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pinewood Avenue Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pinewood Avenue Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Route 66 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Valente Gravel Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
East of Tomhannock Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this property

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Melrose, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Melrose	$8,000	no account filed
July 2023	Flash Flood	Melrose	$5,000	Route 40 between Pine Woods Road and Doty Avenue was closed in both directions due to flooding.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Melrose	$5,000	no account filed
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Melrose	$2,000	no account filed
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Melrose	-	Trees were reported down in Melrose due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Melrose	-	A tree was reported down on wires approximately 4 miles southeast of Mechanicville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2008	Hail	Melrose	-	Nickel size hail was reported in Melrose during a thunderstorm.
August 2008	Flash Flood	Melrose	-	Flash flooding resulted in the closure of Route 40 from Pinewoods Road to Melrose Valley Falls Road in Melrose.

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer County

Maps showing this location

14 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 Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1929 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1947 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Tomhannock quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
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
Coletti-Rowland-Agan Farmstead	0.8 miles	2013
Halford-Hayner Farmstead	1.2 miles	2013
Cartin-Snyder-Overacker Farmstead	1.3 miles	2013
Tomhannock Methodist Episcopal Church	3.6 miles	2014
Sherman Farm	4.0 miles	2003
Howard-Odmin-Sherman Farmstead	4.4 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000360 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rensselaer County	All 128 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.
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.