Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
From the record
“Breakabeen Historic District is a national historic district located at the hamlet of Breakabeen in Schoharie County, New York. Most of the buildings were built in the early to mid-19th century in a vernacular Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Breakabeen Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie County · listed in 1974 · category: District.
National Register reference number.74001304- 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
70 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Breakabeen Historic District
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 106 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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
32
Debris and open burning
16
Arson/incendiarism
10
Natural
4
Smoking
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Other causes
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
1 working within 5 miles of Breakabeen Historic District: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Breakabeen, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.
Route 30 was closed for a time Friday afternoon, March 11th, due to flooding where it crosses the Schoharie Creek in the Town of Fulton. The river gauge on the Schoharie Creek at Breakabeen exceeded its flood stage of 11 feet Friday morning and crested late in the afternoon at 12.6 feet. It went below flood stage in the evening.
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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