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Photograph of St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Mark's Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Mark's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church at 69-75 Hudson Avenue in Green Island, Albany County, New York. It was built in 1866-1867 in a Gothic Revival style.”

Wikipedia article St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Green Island, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 69-75 Hudson Ave., Green Island, 12183
  • When was it listed? November 1978
  • Category. building
  • Town. Green Island town
  • National Register reference number. 78001839 - 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

1,308 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,308 fires within 5 miles of St. Mark's Episcopal Church between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,028 acres in total. 73 started naturally. 254 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/undetermined752
Arson/incendiarism254
Debris and open burning100
Natural73
Smoking66
Equipment and vehicle use28
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 3,933 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,933 specimens collected within 10 miles of St. Mark's Episcopal Church between 1760 and 1975: 2,153 Animalia, 1,222 Fungi, 505 Plantae, 33 Unrecorded, 14 Chromista, 4 Protozoa, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A. Clapp and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Diplodia crataegi FuckelDiplodia crataegi Fuckel1895Charles E. Fairman
Specimen of Phyllosticta limitata PeckPhyllosticta limitata Peck1899P.L. Huested
Specimen of Podosphaera oxyacanthae (DC.) de BaryPodosphaera oxyacanthae (DC.) de Bary1899P.L. Huested
A photograph of the species Hemaris thysbe, not of this specimenHemaris thysbe Fabricius, 17751760W.W. Hill
A photograph of the species Monotropa procera, not of this specimenMonotropa procera Torr.1817E. JamesNear Albany
Fontinalis duriaei Schimp.1825H. H. Eaton
Geastrum hygrometricum Pers.1827H. H. EatonTroy
A photograph of the species Acalypha rhomboidea, not of this specimenAcalypha rhomboidea Raf.1828J. HallTroy
A photograph of the species Alnus serrulata, not of this specimenAlnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd.1828J. HallTroy
A photograph of the species Apocynum androsaemifolium, not of this specimenApocynum androsaemifolium L.1828J. HallTroy
A photograph of the species Apocynum cannabinum, not of this specimenApocynum cannabinum L.1828J. HallTroy
A photograph of the species Asclepias amplexicaulis, not of this specimenAsclepias amplexicaulis Sm.1828J. HallTroy

All 3,933 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of St. Mark's Episcopal Church: 12 producers, 11 past producers, 1 plant. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bloating Material. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
CohoesBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Troy PlantPerlitePlant
Cohoes MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cohoes Mine and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Troy Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Troy Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cohoes Clay PitClayProducer
Cohoes Clay PitClayPast Producer
Cohoes Clay PitClayPast Producer
North Troy Clay PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Albany County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78001839 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Albany CountyAll 234 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.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • 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.