Photograph of New York State Canal System — Photograph by Bill Blevins, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

New York State Barge Canal

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“The New York State Canal System is a successor to the Erie Canal and other canals within New York. The 525-mile (845 km) system is composed of the Erie Canal, the Oswego Canal, the Cayuga-Seneca Canal, and the Champlain Canal.”
Wikipedia article New York State Canal System, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. NYS Barge Canal, Waterford to Tonawanda, Whitehall, Oswego & Waterloo, Multiple, 13041
Category. district
National Register reference number. 14000860 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

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.

1895 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1940 USGS Brewerton quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Brewerton quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Brewerton quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Brewerton quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000860 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Albany County	All 234 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.