Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“The Albany Rural Cemetery was established October 7, 1844, in Menands, New York, United States, just outside the city of Albany, New York. It is renowned as one of the most beautiful, pastoral cemeteries in the U.S., at over 400 acres (1.6 km2).”
Wikipedia article Albany Rural Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 1979 · category: District.
National Register reference number.79001566- 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
1,797 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,797 fires within 5 miles of Albany Rural Cemetery
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,503 acres in total. 84 started naturally. 339 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
1083
Arson/incendiarism
339
Debris and open burning
107
Smoking
93
Natural
84
Equipment and vehicle use
41
Misuse of fire by a minor
20
Power generation/transmission/distribution
11
Recreation and ceremony
10
Railroad operations and maintenance
9
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. Museums hold 4,537 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Albany Rural Cemetery between 1760 and 1975: 2,556 Animalia, 1,308 Fungi, 619 Plantae, 33 Unrecorded, 15 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
16 workings within 5 miles of Albany Rural Cemetery: 8 producers, 7 past producers, 1 plant.
9 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Menands, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 hail.
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 was downed on a vehicle as a result of thunderstorm winds. In addition, a man received a minor injury of a cut on his hand as a result of the damage.
Many trees snapped in half and were sheared off at the top. There was also additional trees uprooted, powerlines down, and some street signs bent in half and pulled out of the ground.
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.
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.
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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