West Side Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“The West Side Historic District is a residential area of Saratoga Springs, New York, United States, located west of its downtown section. It is a 122-acre (49 ha) area extending from the blocks west of Broadway to extensions along Church and Washington streets.”
Wikipedia article West Side Historic District (Saratoga Springs, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 1994 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly, along Church, Van Dam, State and Washington Sts., Woodlawn and Grand Aves. and Franklin Sq., Saratoga Springs, 12866
When was it listed? April 1994
Category. district
City. Saratoga Springs city
National Register reference number. 94000258 - 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.

Then and now

1902 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering West Side Historic District, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet covering West Side Historic District, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

266 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of West Side Historic District between 2001 and 2020, burning about 205 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 29 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	135
Arson/incendiarism	29
Natural	22
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Smoking	20
Debris and open burning	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
28 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
23 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of West Side Historic District: 9 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Graphite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Graphite Products Corp Mine	Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer	1910, 1918, 1925
Graphite Products Corp.	Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer	Metamorphic
Maple Ave Quarry	Dolomite, Quartz	Producer	1925
Unnamed Occurrence	Granite, Garnet	Past Producer	1882, 1925
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1927, 1975
Graphite Products Corp.Mine	Graphite	Past Producer
Quarry Switch	Granite	Occurrence	1825, 1882
East Jamaica Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gansevoort Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gansevoort Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saratoga Springs, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 6 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Saratoga Springs	1 hurt, $5,000	A cold front moved south from Canada into the Saint Lawrence Valley late on the 2nd of June resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of eastern New York. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines across parts of Madison, Oneida, Chenango, Otsego, and Saratoga Counties. Especially hard hit was the Westerville area in Oneida County where many roads were closed by fallen trees. In Saratoga County trees fell on a home in Wilton causing extensive damage to the home, while a motorcyclist was injured when a large tree limb fell on him in Saratoga Springs.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Saratoga Springs	$5,000,000	26,1323EST- *,,1400EST,,,0,0,3,0,Urban Flood Northumberland,26,1330EST,,,0,2,0,0,Lightning Wilton,26,1335EST,,,0,0,0,0,Hail (1.75) Greenfield,26,1340EST,,,0,0,0,0,Hail (1.75) Greenfield Center,26,1340EST,,,0,0,5,0,Thunderstorm Winds N Portion,26,1358EST,,,0,0,6,0,Thunderstorm Winds
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Saratoga Springs	$50,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Saratoga Springs	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Saratoga Springs	$2,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Saratoga Springs	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saratoga County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1902 USGS Saratoga quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1934 USGS Saratoga Springs quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Saratoga quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Saratoga quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1949 USGS Saratoga quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Saratoga Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Broadway Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.2 miles	1983
US Post Office-Saratoga Springs	0.2 miles	1989
Broadway Historic District (Boundary Increase II)	0.3 miles	1994
Hiram Charles Todd House	0.4 miles	1972
Franklin Square Historic District	0.4 miles	1973
United Methodist Church	0.5 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000258 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saratoga County	All 83 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.
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.