Mabee House

Built in 1705. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“The Mabee House, on the grounds of the Mabee Farm Historic Site,, is the oldest house still standing in the Mohawk Valley. It is located in the town of Rotterdam, New York, in the hamlet of Rotterdam Junction, New York, along New York State Highway 5S, about six miles (9.7 km) west of the city of Schenectady.”
Wikipedia article Mabee House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Schenectady County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1705.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Rotterdam Junction on NY 5S, Rotterdam Junction, 12150
When was it listed? May 1978
Category. building
Town. Rotterdam town
When was it built? 1705
National Register reference number. 78001907 - 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

222 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Mabee House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 190 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 37 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	125
Arson/incendiarism	37
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	12
Smoking	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Schenectady County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mabee House: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Burdeck Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Scotia Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Scotia Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Vley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Vley Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Schenectady County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1895 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1931 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Rotterdam Junction quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
Swart House and Tavern	1.7 miles	2007
Enlarged Double Lock No. 23, Old Erie Canal	3.7 miles	2008
US Post Office-Scotia Station	4.3 miles	1989
Abraham Glen House	4.7 miles	2004
Stockade Historic District (Boundary Increase)	5.4 miles	1984
Stockade Historic District	5.4 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001907 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schenectady County	All 87 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.