Methodist Episcopal Church of Lansingburgh

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

One of 128 National Register listings published here for Rensselaer County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 600 3rd Ave., Lansingsburgh, 12182
When was it listed? June 2016
Category. building
City. Troy city
National Register reference number. 16000412 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1,195 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,195 fires within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church of Lansingburgh between 1993 and 2020, burning about 818 acres in total. 69 started naturally. 231 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	678
Arson/incendiarism	231
Debris and open burning	98
Natural	69
Smoking	64
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church of Lansingburgh: 11 producers, 11 past producers, 1 plant. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bloating Material. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cohoes	Bloating Material	Producer	Sedimentary
Troy Plant	Perlite	Plant
Cohoes Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cohoes Mine and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Troy Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Sedimentary
Troy Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cohoes Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Cohoes Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Cohoes Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
North Troy Clay Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Maps showing this location

15 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1893 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1929 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1947 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Troy North quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Troy North quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
First Presbyterian Church of Lansingburgh	under 500 feet	2022
Trinity Church Lansingburgh	under 500 feet	1995
Central Lansingburgh Historic District	0.1 miles	2023
Lansingburgh Academy	0.2 miles	1976
Catholic Central High School	0.2 miles	2024
Herman Melville House	0.2 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000412 in Record Group 79.
Rensselaer County	All 128 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.