Photograph of Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Erie Canal

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

“Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, also known as Erie Canal National Historic Landmark, is a historic district that includes the ruins of the Erie Canal aqueduct over Schoharie Creek, and a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) long part of the Erie Canal, in the towns of Glen and Florida within Montgomery County, New York. It was the first part of the old canal to be designated a National Historic Landmark, prior to the designation of the entire New York State Barge Canal as an NHL in 2017.”
Wikipedia article Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1966 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 6 mi. W of Amsterdam on NY 5S, Fort Hunter, 12010
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Town. Florida town
National Register reference number. 66000530 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

142 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Erie Canal between 1999 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 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	82
Arson/incendiarism	18
Debris and open burning	17
Smoking	14
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

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.

1896 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1944 USGS Tribes Hill quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Tribes Hill quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam 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
Amsterdam City Hall	0.2 miles	2001
Fort Johnson	1.5 miles	1972
Guy Park	2.7 miles	1973
Guy Park Avenue School	2.8 miles	1995
Danascara Place	2.8 miles	2019
Gray-Jewett House	3.2 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000530 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 62 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.