Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Gorham House, also known as Elliot House, is a historic home in Loudonville in Albany County, New York. It was built in 1926 and is a 2-story, five-bay Colonial Revival-style brick dwelling with flanking wings.”
Wikipedia article Gorham House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79003239- 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
1893 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18931994
Fires near this property
1,657 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,657 fires within 5 miles of Gorham House
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,392 acres in total. 69 started naturally. 307 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
1005
Arson/incendiarism
307
Debris and open burning
99
Smoking
87
Natural
69
Equipment and vehicle use
41
Misuse of fire by a minor
16
Power generation/transmission/distribution
13
Railroad operations and maintenance
11
Recreation and ceremony
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 4,705 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Gorham House between 1760 and 1975: 2,691 Animalia, 1,323 Fungi, 636 Plantae, 33 Unrecorded, 16 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
11 workings within 5 miles of Gorham House: 5 producers, 5 past producers, 1 plant.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite. 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
Loudonville, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flood, 2 flash flood.
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.
Basement flooding was reported in the City of Albany, with the worst flooding around Exchange, Corning and Sumpster Streets where some basements were filled up to the first floor. The tenants of about a dozen housing units, single-family homes and apartments, were temporarily evacuated.
Heavy rain led to flooding in Colonie's West Albany section. Flooding occurring near the confluence of the Patroon Creek and Sand Creek, causing flooding homes on Sumpter Street. About 20 people have to be evacuated until water was able to recede. Although flooding occurred, local media reported it wasn't as bad as in past years. According to newspaper reports, this area has flooded about a dozen times in the past 15 years.
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.
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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