Fort Johnson

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Old Fort Johnson is a historic house museum and historic site at 2 Mergner Road in Fort Johnson, New York. It is the site of Fort Johnson, a two-story stone house originally enclosed in fortifications built by Sir William Johnson about 1749.”
Wikipedia article Old Fort Johnson, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · 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. Jct. of NY 5 and 67, Fort Johnson, 12070
When was it listed? November 1972
Category. building
Town. Amsterdam town
Architectural style. Georgian architecture
Architect. Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet
National Register reference number. 72000858 - 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

181 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Fort Johnson between 1994 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 21 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	106
Arson/incendiarism	21
Debris and open burning	20
Smoking	14
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
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
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
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
21 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
11 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this property

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Johnson, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Johnson	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm 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.

1895 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1931 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:24000 - 4 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
Erie Canal	1.5 miles	1966
Amsterdam City Hall	1.7 miles	2001
Guy Park Avenue School	1.7 miles	1995
Guy Park	1.7 miles	1973
Gray-Jewett House	2.6 miles	2005
Chalmers Knitting Mills	2.6 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000858 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.
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.