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Conkling-Boardman-Eldridge Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 2016 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 348 Albany Hill Rd., Rensselaerville, 12147
  • When was it listed? February 2016
  • Category. district
  • Town. Rensselaerville town
  • National Register reference number. 15001022 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Conkling-Boardman-Eldridge Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2003Arson/incendiarism4.3 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
21 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,987 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,987 specimens collected within 10 miles of Conkling-Boardman-Eldridge Farm between 1860 and 1975: 1,396 Animalia, 381 Plantae, 187 Fungi, 18 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A C. Frederick, A. A. Heller and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Cephalozia media Lindb.Cephalozia media Lindb.1898Charles H. Pecknear Albany
A photograph of the species Sorex fumeus, not of this specimenSorex fumeus fumeus G.M.Miller, 18951860William J. Hamilton Jr.Rensselaerville
A photograph of the species Abietinella abietina, not of this specimenAbietinella abietina (Hedw.) M.Fleisch.1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mt.
A photograph of the species Anomodon viticulosus, not of this specimenAnomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mts.
A photograph of the species Barbilophozia barbata, not of this specimenBarbilophozia barbata (Schmidel ex Schreb.) Loeske1863C. F. AustinIn Mountain localities
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mts.
A photograph of the species Brachythecium rutabulum, not of this specimenBrachythecium rutabulum (Hedw.) Schimp.1863C. H. PeckHelderberg Mountains
A photograph of the species Crossocalyx hellerianus, not of this specimenCrossocalyx hellerianus (Nees ex Lindenb.) Meyl.1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mts.
Eurhynchium pumilum (Wilson) Schimp.1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mts.
A photograph of the species Fissidens dubius, not of this specimenFissidens dubius P.Beauv.1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mountains
A photograph of the species Fissidens subbasilaris, not of this specimenFissidens subbasilaris Hedw.1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mountains
A photograph of the species Herzogiella striatella, not of this specimenHerzogiella striatella (Brid.) Z.Iwats.1863not recordedHelderburg Mts. [Inferred county from precise loc.]

All 1,987 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Conkling-Boardman-Eldridge Farm: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Grippee QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Albany County

Storms near this property

7 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rensselaerville, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 7 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRensselaerville-A tree was downed on Fleming Road near Rensselaerville.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindRensselaerville-A tree was reported down.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindRensselaerville-Trees and wires were reported down.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindRensselaerville-Law enforcement reported a tree down at Willsey Rd and Fleming Rd.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindRensselaerville-Law enforcement reported a tree down on wires at Willsey Rd and Route 351.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRensselaerville-Route 85 in the town of Rensselaerville had all lanes closed at County Route 351 due to a downed tree.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRensselaerville-A downed tree was blocking the roadway.

Every storm recorded in Albany County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

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 PropertyDistance Listed
Rensselaerville Historic District1.0 miles1983
Sidney White House5.6 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 15001022 in Record Group 79.
Albany CountyAll 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.
  • 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.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • 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.