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Photograph of Rensselaerville Historic District
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Rensselaerville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Rensselaerville Historic District is a national historic district located at Rensselaerville in Albany County, New York. It includes 86 contributing buildings and encompasses most of the buildings in the hamlet of Rensselaerville.”

Wikipedia article Rensselaerville Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

63 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Rensselaerville Historic District between 1995 and 2019, burning about 109 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined37
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural7
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
12 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2003Arson/incendiarism4.3 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,801 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,801 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rensselaerville Historic District between 1860 and 1975: 1,281 Animalia, 357 Plantae, 150 Fungi, 10 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A C. Frederick, A. A. Heller 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
A photograph of the species Sorex fumeus, not of this specimenSorex fumeus fumeus G.M.Miller, 18951860William J. Hamilton Jr.Rensselaerville
A photograph of the species Abietinella abietina, not of this specimenAbietinella abietina (Hedw.) M.Fleisch.1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mt.
A photograph of the species Anomodon viticulosus, not of this specimenAnomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mts.
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mts.
A photograph of the species Brachythecium rutabulum, not of this specimenBrachythecium rutabulum (Hedw.) Schimp.1863C. H. PeckHelderberg Mountains
A photograph of the species Crossocalyx hellerianus, not of this specimenCrossocalyx hellerianus (Nees ex Lindenb.) Meyl.1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mts.
Eurhynchium pumilum (Wilson) Schimp.1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mts.
A photograph of the species Fissidens dubius, not of this specimenFissidens dubius P.Beauv.1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mountains
A photograph of the species Fissidens subbasilaris, not of this specimenFissidens subbasilaris Hedw.1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mountains
A photograph of the species Herzogiella striatella, not of this specimenHerzogiella striatella (Brid.) Z.Iwats.1863not recordedHelderburg Mts. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Mnium spinulosum, not of this specimenMnium spinulosum Bruch & Schimp.1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mts.
A photograph of the species Myurella sibirica, not of this specimenMyurella sibirica (Müll.Hal.) Reimers1863C. F. AustinHelderberg Mts.

All 1,801 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

7 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rensselaerville, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRensselaerville-A tree was downed on Fleming Road near Rensselaerville.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindRensselaerville-A tree was reported down.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindRensselaerville-Trees and wires were reported down.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindRensselaerville-Law enforcement reported a tree down at Willsey Rd and Fleming Rd.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindRensselaerville-Law enforcement reported a tree down on wires at Willsey Rd and Route 351.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRensselaerville-Route 85 in the town of Rensselaerville had all lanes closed at County Route 351 due to a downed tree.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRensselaerville-A downed tree was blocking the roadway.

Every storm recorded in Albany County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

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.

Listed places nearby

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Conkling-Boardman-Eldridge Farm1.0 miles2016
Sidney White House4.6 miles2005
Potter Hollow District No. 19 School7.9 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001635 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.
  • 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.