CATAWISSA (tugboat)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Catawissa was a historic tugboat located at Waterford in Saratoga County, New York. She was built in 1896-1897 by Harlan and Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Delaware for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad to tow coal barges between ports on the Eastern Seaboard.”
Wikipedia article Catawissa (tugboat), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 1996 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Lock 3, NY State Barge Canal, Erie Div., Waterford, 12188
When was it listed? August 1996
Category. structure
Town. Waterford town
National Register reference number. 96000828 - 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

969 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 969 fires within 5 miles of CATAWISSA (tugboat) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 751 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 173 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	555
Arson/incendiarism	173
Debris and open burning	79
Natural	60
Smoking	55
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Recreation and ceremony	7
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of CATAWISSA (tugboat): 11 producers, 8 past producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bloating Material. 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
Cohoes	Bloating Material	Producer	Sedimentary
Cohoes Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cohoes Mine and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cohoes Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Cohoes Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Cohoes Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Crescent Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
North Troy Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
North Troy Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Troy Clay Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this property

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterford, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 2007	Lightning	Waterford	1 killed	Lightning struck a steel pylon at Alcathys Marina, adjacent to where a 17 year old male was standing. The male was knocked unconscious, and was transported to a nearby hospital. He was pronounced dead the next morning.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterford	$5,000	no account filed
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterford	$5,000	no account filed
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterford	-	Three trees were downed onto wires on Middle Second and Fulton Streets as well as Maple Ave.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterford	-	Multiple trees were uprooted in Waterford due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2011	Flood	Waterford	-	Flooding occurred along the Hudson River in Saratoga County. Numerous roadways, houses and riverside camps were flooded. Some properties had several feet of water in them.\|\|In Schuylerville, a family had to be evacuated from their Schuyler Island home. Flood waters from the Hudson River undermined the back of the house, tore out an in-ground pool and inundated the house with up to 5 1/2 feet of water. Route 29, Ferry Road which crosses Schuyler Island, was closed between Route 4/32 and County Route 113, River Road. Fort Hardy Park went underwater.\|\|In Stillwater, Route 4 from Wilber Road to River Road along the Hudson River was alternating one-way traffic due to flooding. Flooding also occurred on Ferry lane, River Road and Bunce Lane along the Hudson River.
May 2011	Flood	Waterford	-	Flooding which began on April 28th continued along the Hudson River in Saratoga County.
March 2011	Flood	Waterford	-	Crescent Boat Club located on River Road in Waterford was reported flooded due to an ice jam on the Mohawk River.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterford	-	A tree was reported down in Waterford due to strong thunderstorm winds.
October 2010	Flood	Waterford	-	The Cohoes-Waterford Bridge, Route 32/Saratoga Avenue was reported closed due to nearly a foot of water on the bridge.
July 2008	Hail	Waterford	-	Nickel size hail fell in Waterford during a thunderstorm.
August 2007	Hail	Waterford	-	Penny size hail was reported in Waterford.
February 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterford	-	A wind gust of 62 miles an hour was measured in a thunderstorm at Waterford by a trained spotter.

Every storm recorded in Saratoga County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1893 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1929 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1947 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Cohoes quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Troy North quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Troy North quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
URGER (canal tugboat)	0.2 miles	2001
Waterford Village Historic District	0.8 miles	1977
Ormsby-Laughlin Textile Companies Mill	0.8 miles	1986
Northside Historic District	1.0 miles	1975
Peebles (Peobles) Island	1.3 miles	1973
Church Hill Historic District	2.7 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000828 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.