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Photograph of Mechanicville Hydroelectric Plant
Photograph by The Street Railway Journal (1898), Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mechanicville Hydroelectric Plant

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Mechanicville Hydroelectric Plant is a 18.3-acre (7.4 ha) national historic district located at Mechanicville in Saratoga County, New York. The listing included one contributing building and three contributing structures.”

Wikipedia article Mechanicville Hydroelectric Plant, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 128 National Register listings published here for Rensselaer County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. At NY 32 on Hudson River, Mechanicville, 12118
  • When was it listed? November 1989
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 89001942 - 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

319 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 319 fires within 5 miles of Mechanicville Hydroelectric Plant between 1994 and 2020, burning about 389 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 46 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/undetermined166
Arson/incendiarism46
Debris and open burning29
Smoking28
Natural27
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Mechanicville Hydroelectric Plant: 7 producers, 7 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Melrose Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Melrose Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
North of Melrose Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Hemstreet Park Clay PitClayProducer
Hemstreet Park Clay PitClayPast Producer
Mechcanicville Clay PitClayProducer
Burrello PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Collins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Collins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Maps showing this location

14 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

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
Knickerbocker Mansion2.3 miles1972
Adams-Myers-Bryan Farmstead6.2 miles2013
Valley Falls Historic District6.2 miles2018
Corliss Park Historic District6.2 miles2024
Powers Home6.5 miles1974
Halford-Hayner Farmstead6.6 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89001942 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rensselaer CountyAll 128 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.