Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
From the record
“Hayes House is a historic home on Fairview Avenue in Altamont in Albany County, New York. It was built in 1910 and is a large square frame dwelling on a stone foundation.”
Wikipedia article Hayes House (Altamont, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.73001157- 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
128 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Hayes House
between 2001 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 23 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
73
Arson/incendiarism
23
Natural
13
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Debris and open burning
5
Smoking
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 2,120 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hayes House between 1811 and 1975: 1,248 Animalia, 469 Fungi, 373 Plantae, 11 Protozoa, 9 Chromista, 6 Unrecorded, 4 Bacteria.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A C. Frederick, A. A. Heller, A. Sherf 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
8 workings within 5 miles of Hayes House: 5 producers, 3 past producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Altamont, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 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.
Severe thunderstorms moved across eastern New York ahead of a warm front during the afternoon and evening hours of the 13th of June. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines and large hail was also reported with some thunderstorms. The hardest hit area was Lisle in Broome County where a 40-foot section of roof was blown off a mobile home. In addition golfball size hail was reported in Apalachin in Tioga County and Ross Corners in Broome County.
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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