Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Peebles Island State Park is a 190-acre (0.77 km2) state park located at the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers in New York. A majority of the park is located in Saratoga County, with a smaller portion located in Albany County.”
Wikipedia article Peebles Island State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 1973 · category: District.
National Register reference number.73001265- 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
1,168 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,168 fires within 5 miles of Peebles (Peobles) Island
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 738 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 217 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
678
Arson/incendiarism
217
Debris and open burning
89
Natural
68
Smoking
64
Equipment and vehicle use
22
Misuse of fire by a minor
18
Recreation and ceremony
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
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. The federal mineral resources record lists
23 workings within 5 miles of Peebles (Peobles) Island: 12 producers, 10 past 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Waterford, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 hail, 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Lightning struck a steel pylon at Alcathys Marina, adjacent to where a 17 year old male was standing. The male was knocked unconscious, and was transported to a nearby hospital. He was pronounced dead the next morning.
Flooding occurred along the Hudson River in Saratoga County. Numerous roadways, houses and riverside camps were flooded. Some properties had several feet of water in them.||In Schuylerville, a family had to be evacuated from their Schuyler Island home. Flood waters from the Hudson River undermined the back of the house, tore out an in-ground pool and inundated the house with up to 5 1/2 feet of water. Route 29, Ferry Road which crosses Schuyler Island, was closed between Route 4/32 and County Route 113, River Road. Fort Hardy Park went underwater.||In Stillwater, Route 4 from Wilber Road to River Road along the Hudson River was alternating one-way traffic due to flooding. Flooding also occurred on Ferry lane, River Road and Bunce Lane along the Hudson River.
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.
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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