Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Church Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Nassau in Rensselaer County, New York. It consists of 36 contributing buildings located along Church Street.”
Wikipedia article Church Street Historic District (Nassau, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 128 National Register listings published here for Rensselaer County · listed in 1978 · category: District.
National Register reference number.78001901- 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
198 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Church Street Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 196 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 40 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
99
Arson/incendiarism
40
Debris and open burning
26
Equipment and vehicle use
14
Natural
10
Smoking
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
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
9 workings within 5 miles of Church Street Historic District: 5 producers, 3 past producers, 1 plant.
6 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
Nassau, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
A severe thunderstorm formed over southern Rensselaer County during the early morning hours of September 10th. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in the southeast corner of the Town of Nassau.
Route 20 was closed between Bliss School House Road and Route 66 due to downed trees and wires in the town of Nassau as a result of thunderstorm winds.
The Kinderhook Creek overflowed its banks and flooded Chatham Street in Nassau. The water also rose and affected a senior housing complex, which prompted an evacuation of the building.
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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