Champlain Canal

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“The Champlain Canal is a 60-mile (97 km) canal in New York that connects the Hudson River to the south end of Lake Champlain. It was simultaneously constructed with the Erie Canal for use by commercial vessels, fully opening in 1823.”
Wikipedia article Champlain Canal, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 1976 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Extends N from Troy to Whitehall, Troy, 12834
When was it listed? September 1976
Category. district
National Register reference number. 76001274 - 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

1900 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Champlain Canal, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet covering Champlain Canal, surveyed 1900

Fires near this property

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Champlain Canal between 1992 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 15 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	61
Debris and open burning	29
Arson/incendiarism	15
Natural	7
Smoking	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
21 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
1 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Champlain Canal: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Dolomite, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Bald Mountain Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence	Limestone
Middle Falls Quarry	Limestone, General, Dolomite	Past Producer	Dolomite, Limestone
Peckham Materials Corp.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Plant Number 31	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Schuylerville Deposit	Silica	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Stark Knob Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence	1910, 1925
Unnamed Deposit	Silica	Past Producer	1922, 1927
Unnamed Occurrence	Limestone, General, Dolomite	Past Producer	1845

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1900 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1935 USGS Fort Miller quadrangle1:24000
1940 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1949 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Ft Miller quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000

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
Marshall House	3.7 miles	2002
Col. Sidney Berry House	4.0 miles	2003
Bullard Block	4.4 miles	2009
Saratoga Reformed Church, Old	4.6 miles	1997
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church	4.7 miles	2005
Victory Mills	5.3 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001274 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saratoga County	All 83 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.