Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Coeymans School, also known as Acton Civill Polytechnic Institute, is a historic school building located at Coeymans in Albany County, New York. It was built in 1874 and is a rectangular brick building with a mansard roof with slate shingles.”
Wikipedia article Coeymans School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.70000418- 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
197 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Coeymans School
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 161 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 26 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
104
Arson/incendiarism
26
Debris and open burning
18
Railroad operations and maintenance
16
Equipment and vehicle use
13
Natural
10
Recreation and ceremony
3
Smoking
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
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. Museums hold 4,171 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Coeymans School between 1847 and 1974: 3,233 Fungi, 553 Plantae, 248 Animalia, 75 Protozoa, 44 Chromista, 18 Unrecorded.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Fitch, A.F. Sherf, Ahles, H.E. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
23 workings within 5 miles of Coeymans School: 13 producers, 10 past producers.
13 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Coeymans, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
Heavy rain led to widespread flooding of small streams and creeks across the county, which began during the morning hours of Monday, April 16th, and persisted into late Monday evening on the 16th.|Widespread flooding led to numerous road closures, including Miller Road off Route 9W in Coeymans, Route 32 in New Scotland between Lagrange Lane and Winne Lane, and Creble Road between Elm Avenue and South Albany Road in Bethlehem Center. In addition, evacuations occurred along Coeymans Creek.|Furthermore, a fatality and injury occurred as a brother and sister, ages 14 and 15, respectively, canoed into the rain swollen Basic Creek in Westerlo when the canoe tipped over around 17:00 EST. The female drowned, being swept away by strong currents within the creek. She was pronounced dead at Albany Medical Center at 21:02 EST on the 16th. The male was able to reach the shore.
A cold front crossing through eastern New York sparked a line of thunderstorms late on the afternoon of June 29. A thunderstorm cell became locally severe in the town of Coeymans in southeast Albany County . Thunderstorm wind gusts produced damage in a trailer park on Winnie Avenue. Specifically, power lines were knocked down, several trailer homes were damaged and small trees destroyed. In addition, several persons observed a funnel cloud with the storm.
Water was reported over Route 143 in numerous places in Ravena and Coeymans. Also, Route 9W was closed at Miller Road due water over the roadway. In addition, other roadways were reported extremely dangerous due to Coeymans Creek, Hannacroix Creek and their tributaries running at full capacity.
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.
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.
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.
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