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Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“The Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops were two historic buildings and one historic structure located at Green Island, Albany County, New York. The buildings were built in 1871 by the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad.”
Wikipedia article Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops, 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.73001161- 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
1,306 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,306 fires within 5 miles of Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,013 acres in total. 74 started naturally. 250 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
755
Arson/incendiarism
250
Debris and open burning
97
Natural
74
Smoking
66
Equipment and vehicle use
27
Misuse of fire by a minor
20
Recreation and ceremony
10
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Railroad operations and maintenance
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 3,929 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops between 1760 and 1975: 2,152 Animalia, 1,220 Fungi, 504 Plantae, 33 Unrecorded, 14 Chromista, 4 Protozoa, 2 Bacteria.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A. Clapp 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
26 workings within 5 miles of Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops: 13 past producers, 12 producers, 1 plant.
13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bloating Material. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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