Built in 1850 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“House at 461 Spruce Lake Road is a historic home located in Summit, Schoharie County, New York. It was built about 1850, and is a two-story, double pile, front-gable form vernacular Greek Revival style dwelling with a one-story, single pile, side wing.”
Wikipedia article House at 461 Spruce Lake Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1850, Greek Revival architecture.
National Register reference number. 14001130 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
71 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 71 fires within 5 miles of House at 461 Spruce Lake Road
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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
32
Debris and open burning
12
Arson/incendiarism
11
Natural
5
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Smoking
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Recreation and ceremony
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 National Weather Service names
Summit, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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.
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.
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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