American Hotel

Built in 1849 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“American Hotel is a historic hotel located at Sharon Springs in Schoharie County, New York. It is a large, wood-frame structure built between 1847 and 1851 in the Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article American Hotel (Sharon Springs, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1849, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St., Sharon Springs, 13459
When was it listed? September 1975
Category. building
Town. Sharon town
When was it built? 1849
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 75001228 - 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

60 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of American Hotel between 1999 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	17
Debris and open burning	16
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1

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
5 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 June 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

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.

1898 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Sharon Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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
Sharon Springs Historic District	0.1 miles	1994
John Lehman House	1.8 miles	2012
St. John's Lutheran Church	3.8 miles	2008
Peter A. Hilton House	3.8 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001228 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schoharie County	All 52 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.