Packer Farm and Barkersville Store

Built in 1859 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Packer Farm and Barkersville Store is a historic farm and general store and national historic district located at Middle Grove, Saratoga County, New York. The district encompasses four contributing buildings and one contributing structure in the Town of Providence.”
Wikipedia article Packer Farm and Barkersville Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 2013 · category: District · built in 1859, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

Address. 7189 Barkersville Rd., Middle Grove, 12850
When was it listed? August 2013
Category. district
Town. Providence town
When was it built? 1859
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 13000630 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Packer Farm and Barkersville Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 332 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 18 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	61
Debris and open burning	27
Arson/incendiarism	18
Recreation and ceremony	14
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
25 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Packer Farm and Barkersville Store: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Tri-Town Gravel Facility	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Tri-Town Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middle Grove, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 3 hail, 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
July 1995	Hail	Middle Grove	$2,000	no account filed
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Middle Grove	-	A tree was downed on wires.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Middle Grove	-	Trees and wires downed at 16 Young Road.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Middle Grove	-	One tree was downed on Rock City Road, one mile east-northeast of West Milton, as a result of thunderstorm winds. The fallen tree caused a power transformer to be damaged.
August 2008	Hail	Middle Grove	-	Penny size hail was reported in Middle Grove during a thunderstorm.
July 1995	Hail	Middle Grove	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saratoga 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.

1899 USGS Broadalbin quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Broadalbin quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1945 USGS Galway quadrangle1:24000
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
1970 USGS Galway quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Mead House	5.4 miles	2004
	George West House	6.0 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000630 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saratoga County	All 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.
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.