Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“The Downtown Cohoes Historic District takes up 35 acres (14 ha) of the city of Cohoes, New York, United States. Many of the 165 contributing properties date from the 1820-1930 period when the Erie Canal and Harmony Mills were the mainstay of the city's economy.”
Wikipedia article Downtown Cohoes Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 1984 · category: District.
National Register reference number.84002060- 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
1,224 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,224 fires within 5 miles of Downtown Cohoes Historic District
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 951 acres in total. 63 started naturally. 234 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
716
Arson/incendiarism
234
Debris and open burning
89
Smoking
65
Natural
63
Misuse of fire by a minor
22
Equipment and vehicle use
22
Recreation and ceremony
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
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. Museums hold 3,757 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Downtown Cohoes Historic District between 1760 and 1975: 1,989 Animalia, 1,213 Fungi, 502 Plantae, 33 Unrecorded, 14 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
23 workings within 5 miles of Downtown Cohoes Historic District: 12 producers, 10 past producers, 1 plant.
13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Cohoes, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 16 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 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.
Intense rainfall from slow moving and training thunderstorms produced flash flooding in Cohoes.||Numerous roadways, including Meadowlark Drive, were reportedly impassable due to several feet of ponding water. Several vehicles were also reportedly stuck in the flood waters, with at least one person rescued from a submerged car by being pulled out of the back seat of the vehicle through the trunk of the car.||In addition, a roof of a home collapsed on Idlewild Park in Watervliet due to the intense rainfall, with no injuries reported.
Heavy rainfall led to flash flooding at the intersection of Canvass and Oneida Streets in Cohoes. Two to three feet of standing water was ponded in the intersection of the road.
An ice jam moving along the Mohawk River near the Northway Bridge resulted in flooding near Forts Ferry, Island View Road, River Road, part of Rosendale Road, and Niska Isles during Friday morning on March 16th.
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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