Muitzes Kill Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Muitzes Kill Historic District is a national historic district located at Schodack in Rensselaer County, New York. It consists of 23 contributing buildings located in the hamlet of Muitzes Kill, or Muitzeskill.”
Wikipedia article Muitzes Kill Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 128 National Register listings published here for Rensselaer County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. An irregular pattern on both sides of Schodack Landing Rd., Schodack, 12156
When was it listed? July 1974
Category. district
Town. Schodack town
National Register reference number. 74001297 - 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

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Muitzes Kill Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 42 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	126
Arson/incendiarism	42
Debris and open burning	22
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Natural	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Smoking	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
8 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Muitzes Kill Historic District: 9 producers, 7 past producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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	Recorded
Alcove Quarry	Flagstone	Producer
Ravena Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Kenneth Morris Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Kenneth Morris Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ravena Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Ravenna Quarry & Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Coeymans Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Coeymans Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Coeymans Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Coeymans Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1903 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1933 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Pittsfield 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
District School No. 3	2.0 miles	1998
Schodack Landing Historic District	2.2 miles	1977
Henry Tunis Smith Farm	5.5 miles	1975
Albany Avenue Historic District	6.2 miles	1978
Blink Bonnie	6.4 miles	2000
Chatham Street Row	6.4 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001297 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rensselaer County	All 128 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.