Fort Klock

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Fort Klock, a fortified stone homestead in the Mohawk River Valley of Upstate New York, was built c.1750 by Johannes Klock, and is a good example of a mid-18th century fortified home and trading post, seeing use during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War The fort is located at 7203 Route 5 roughly two miles (3 km) east of the Village of St. Fort Klock is part of a 30-acre (12 ha) complex that includes the historic homestead, a renovated Colonial Dutch Barn, blacksmith shop, and 19th-century schoolhouse.”
Wikipedia article Fort Klock, 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. 2 mi. E of St. Johnsville on NY 5, St. Johnsville, 13452
When was it listed? November 1972
Category. building
Town. St. Johnsville town
National Register reference number. 72000859 - 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

86 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Fort Klock between 2001 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 24 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	36
Arson/incendiarism	24
Debris and open burning	13
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
3 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fort Klock: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
St. Johnsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Moyer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sheldon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

1898 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1944 USGS Fort Plain quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Fort Plain 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
Nellis Tavern	0.7 miles	1990
Enlarged Double Lock No. 33 Old Erie Canal	1.0 miles	2002
Palatine Church	1.6 miles	1973
Margaret Reaney Memorial Library	1.7 miles	2012
Bates-Englehardt Mansion	1.7 miles	1989
US Post Office-St. Johnsville	1.7 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000859 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.
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.