Saratoga National Historical Park

Built in 1938. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Saratoga National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located in the Town of Stillwater in eastern New York, 30 miles (48 km) north of Albany. The park preserves the site of the Battles of Saratoga.”
Wikipedia article Saratoga National Historical Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1938.

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

The listing

Address. Address Restricted, Albany, 12871
When was it listed? 1966-10-15
Category. district
Town. Saratoga town
When was it built? 1938
National Register reference number. 66000569 - 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.

Then and now

1900 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Saratoga National Historical Park, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet covering Saratoga National Historical Park, surveyed 1900

Fires near this property

134 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Saratoga National Historical Park between 1993 and 2020, burning about 138 acres in total. 10 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	58
Debris and open burning	29
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	10
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Saratoga National Historical Park	GROZNIAK
18 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Saratoga National Historical Park: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Burgoyne Deposit	Silica	Past Producer	Stratiform
	Normanskill Grits	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1885, 1925

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1900 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1935 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:24000
1940 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1949 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000

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
Victory Mills	3.9 miles	2010
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church	4.5 miles	2005
Saratoga Reformed Church, Old	4.6 miles	1997
Bullard Block	4.9 miles	2009
Marshall House	5.5 miles	2002
Stillwater United Church	7.0 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000569 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saratoga County	All 83 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.