Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Marsh-Link-Pollock Farm, also known as the Pollock Farm, is a historic home and farm located at Brunswick, Rensselaer County, New York. The farmhouse was built about 1840, and is a two-story, "L"-plan, Greek Revival style timber frame dwelling with a one-story rear ell.”
Wikipedia article Marsh-Link-Pollock Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 128 National Register listings published here for Rensselaer County · listed in 2014 · category: District.
National Register reference number. 14001072 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
272 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 272 fires within 5 miles of Marsh-Link-Pollock Farm
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 318 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 24 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
139
Debris and open burning
45
Arson/incendiarism
24
Smoking
21
Natural
21
Equipment and vehicle use
13
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
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
10 workings within 5 miles of Marsh-Link-Pollock Farm: 5 past producers, 5 producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Brunswick, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2011: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 lightning, 1 high wind.
The reports record 13 injuries. 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.
A cold front, moving across Renselaer County, late during the afternoon of June 20, produced wind gusts that while below warning criteria, nevertheless damaged a church under construction in the town of Brunswick. The building was only in the framing state and trusses were being placed on a roof. The precariously ballanced trusses were toppled into the church by wind speeds estimated between 30 and 50 mph . Eleven workers suffered injuries, one of which was severe.
Lightning suspected to have struck a place of business in Brunswick. Two minor injuries occured; one due to smoke inhalation, and another due to a firefighter falling off a ladder.
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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