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US Post Office-St. Johnsville

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Johnsville is a historic post office building located at St. Johnsville in Montgomery County, New York, United States.”

Wikipedia article United States Post Office (St. Johnsville, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. US Post Office--St. Johnsville - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Main St., St. Johnsville, 13452
  • When was it listed? May 1989
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
  • Town. St. Johnsville town
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88002434 - 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

76 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-St. Johnsville between 2001 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning10
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
3 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkLITTLE FALLS
28 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-St. Johnsville: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Moyer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St. Johnsville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
St. Johnsville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

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.

Listed places nearby

6 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
Margaret Reaney Memorial Libraryunder 500 feet2012
Bates-Englehardt Mansionunder 500 feet1989
First Methodist Episcopal Church of St. Johnsville0.2 miles2013
St. Johnsville Historic District0.2 miles2019
Enlarged Double Lock No. 33 Old Erie Canal0.8 miles2002
Stone Grist Mill Complex1.0 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88002434 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery CountyAll 62 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.
  • 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.