Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Newtonville Post Office is a historic post office building located at Newtonville in Albany County, New York, United States. It was built in 1852 as the First Baptist Church.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Newtonville, 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.73001162- 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.
Then and now
1893 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18931994
Fires near this property
1,684 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,684 fires within 5 miles of Newtonville Post Office
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,360 acres in total. 85 started naturally. 295 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
1030
Arson/incendiarism
295
Debris and open burning
98
Smoking
94
Natural
85
Equipment and vehicle use
42
Misuse of fire by a minor
17
Power generation/transmission/distribution
11
Recreation and ceremony
8
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
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 4,593 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Newtonville Post Office between 1760 and 1975: 2,608 Animalia, 1,317 Fungi, 614 Plantae, 33 Unrecorded, 15 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
19 workings within 5 miles of Newtonville Post Office: 11 producers, 7 past producers, 1 plant.
12 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Newtonville, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
A spotter reported street flooding on East Hills Road in Watervliet as a result of heavy rainfall. The water rushing down the street had a depth of 4 to 6 inches in spots.
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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