Built in 1800. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Adams-Myers-Bryan Farmstead is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Valley Falls, Rensselaer County, New York. The farmhouse was built about 1855, and consists of three blocks.”
Wikipedia article Adams-Myers-Bryan Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 128 National Register listings published here for Rensselaer County · listed in 2013 · category: District · built in 1800.
Also known as. Farmsteads of Pittstown, New York MPS
Town. Pittstown town
When was it built? 1800
National Register reference number. 13000629 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
183 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Adams-Myers-Bryan Farmstead
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 30 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
93
Arson/incendiarism
30
Debris and open burning
29
Natural
16
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Smoking
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Recreation and ceremony
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Other causes
1
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
9 workings within 5 miles of Adams-Myers-Bryan Farmstead: 5 past producers, 4 producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Valley Falls, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood.
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.
Heavy rain led to flash flooding on North Street in Valley Falls. Rapid runoff led to the erosion of the ground beneath a hundred year old, two-apartment house. The home's owner estimated that about 300 cubic yards of land was lost beneath the home in about a five minute period. Although the home's foundation remained intact, a small porch lost all the ground underneath it.
Trees and wires were reported down on Master Street, one mile north of the village of Valley Falls in the town of Schaghticoke, as a result of thunderstorm winds.
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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