Christman Bird and Wildlife Sanctuary

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Christman Bird and Wildlife Sanctuary is a national historic district located near Delanson, Schenectady County, New York. The district includes six contributing buildings and one contributing structure on a largely wooded, rural 105-acre (42 ha) tract.”
Wikipedia article Christman Bird and Wildlife Sanctuary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Schenectady County · listed in 1970 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Schoharie Tpke., Delanson, 12053
When was it listed? August 1970
Category. district
Town. Duanesburg town
National Register reference number. 70000433 - 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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Christman Bird and Wildlife Sanctuary between 1992 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 19 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	65
Arson/incendiarism	19
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
29 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
21 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Schenectady 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 Christman Bird and Wildlife Sanctuary: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Knox Quarry	Flagstone	Producer
	Masic Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Schenectady County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delanson, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Delanson	$25,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Delanson	$5,000	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Delanson	-	Multiple trees were reported down at the intersection of U.S. Route 20 and State Route 395 in the town of Duanesburg due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2011	Flash Flood	Delanson	-	The firehouse in Delanson flooded.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Delanson	-	Trees and wires were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds in Delanson.
June 2007	Hail	Delanson	-	Nickel size hail was reported in Delanson.

Every storm recorded in Schenectady 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.

1900 USGS Berne quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1903 USGS Berne quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1944 USGS Altamont quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1946 USGS Altamont 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
Duane Mansion	0.9 miles	1987
North Mansion and Tenant House	1.0 miles	1987
Ferguson Farm Complex	1.4 miles	1987
Gaige Homestead	1.5 miles	1984
Chadwick Farmhouse	2.4 miles	1984
Robert Liddle Farmhouse	2.4 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000433 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schenectady County	All 87 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.
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.