Built in 1940 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Post Office in Delmar, New York is located on Delaware Avenue in the middle of the hamlet. It serves the 12054 ZIP Code, covering Delmar and its surrounding area.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Delmar, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1940, Colonial Revival architecture, by Louis A. Simon.
National Register reference number.88002480- 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
829 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 829 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Delmar
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 597 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 102 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
566
Arson/incendiarism
102
Natural
40
Smoking
37
Debris and open burning
26
Railroad operations and maintenance
23
Equipment and vehicle use
21
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Recreation and ceremony
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
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 4,734 specimens
collected within 10 miles of US Post Office-Delmar between 1760 and 1975: 2,480 Animalia, 1,487 Fungi, 707 Plantae, 28 Unrecorded, 18 Chromista, 12 Protozoa, 2 Bacteria.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Delmar: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Quartz. 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
Delmar, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 lightning.
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.
Excessive rains caused a rapid erosion of the Normanskill escarpment, next to county Highway Route 443 in Delmar, just south of the city of Albany. On May 16 a landslide developed, and spread over the next couple of days. Route 443, a busy artery connecting the city of Albany to neighboring Delmar, had to be closed indefinitely. A produce store was destroyed as it slid down the escarpment by 830 PM on Thursday, May 18. The road closure resulted in significant traffic delays. The erosion continued at a slower rate throughout the remainder of the month. The landslide resulted in significant monteary losses at the Delaware Plaza and other nearby businesses.
A member of the public reported on Twitter that six inches of water was flowing across Delaware Avenue in Delmar due to heavy rainfall from thunderstorms.
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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