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Hadley Parabolic Bridge
Built in 1885. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
From the record
“The Hadley Parabolic Bridge, often referred to locally as the Hadley Bow Bridge, carries Corinth Road across the Sacandaga River in Hadley, New York, United States. It is an iron bridge dating from the late 19th century.”
Wikipedia article Hadley Parabolic Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 1977 · category: Site · built in 1885.
National Register reference number.77000981- 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
1903 to 1989
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19031989
Fires near this property
138 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Hadley Parabolic Bridge
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 165 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 8 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
56
Recreation and ceremony
19
Natural
17
Debris and open burning
16
Smoking
8
Arson/incendiarism
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Equipment and vehicle use
2
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
7 workings within 5 miles of Hadley Parabolic Bridge: 3 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Marble, Dimension, Feldspar, Feldspar, Iron. 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
Hadley, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A tree fell on a home in Hadley as a result of thunderstorm winds. One person at the home was injured due to the falling tree and had to be hospitalized.
The melting of a deep snowpack led to moderate or higher river flooding across portions of the upper Hudson River basin, including the Great Sacandaga Lake, and the Hudson River between Schuylerville and Mechanicville.||Snow water equivalents of nearly one foot began to melt during a warm period beginning around April 10th, and led to river flooding which persisted through the end of April.||On the Hudson River near Schuylerville, a sod farm suffered estimated losses of $225,000 due to prolonged submersion of sod in Hudson River flood waters. In addition, the New York State Canal Corporation was unable to open the Hudson-Champlain Canal in April due to high water levels. Furthermore, the crest of the Great Sacandaga Lake level was a new record.
A home near the Bend of the River Golf Club was struck by lightning which sparked a small electrical fire. The property owner later called the home unlivable.
Approximately 100 to 120 trees were downed as a result of strong straight line winds during a thunderstorm in Hadley, along County Route 4 and Stewart Bridge Road.
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.
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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