Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.
From the record
“Thomas Liddle Farm Complex is a historic home and farm complex located at Duanesburg in Schenectady County, New York. The farmhouse was built about 1850 and is a 2-story, three-bay clapboard-sided frame building in a vernacular Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Thomas Liddle Farm Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 87 National Register listings published here for Schenectady County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.84003247- 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
70 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Liddle Farm Complex
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 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
40
Arson/incendiarism
9
Natural
6
Debris and open burning
6
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Smoking
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
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. The National Weather Service names
Duanesburg, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 lightning.
The reports record 4 injuries. 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.
Lightning from a thunderstorm struck a male farmer in Duanesburg. He was thrown to the ground, but never lost conciousness and only suffered minor injuries. A tree was struck nearby, caught fire and was destroyed.
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.
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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