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Photograph of Fort Miller Reformed Church Complex
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, Upstate New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Miller Reformed Church Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Fort Miller Reformed Church Complex is a historic church on Fort Miller Road, west of US 4 and south of Galusha Island and located at Fort Edward in Washington County, New York.”

Wikipedia article Fort Miller Reformed Church Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Fort Miller Rd., W of US 4 and S of Galusha Island, Fort Edward, 12828
  • When was it listed? December 1996
  • Category. building
  • Town. Fort Edward town
  • National Register reference number. 96001431 - 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

1900 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Fort Miller Reformed Church Complex, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet covering Fort Miller Reformed Church Complex, surveyed 1900

Fires near this property

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Fort Miller Reformed Church Complex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined68
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking9
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fort Miller Reformed Church Complex: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, 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
Bald Mountain DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceLimestone
Stark Knob QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence1910, 1925
Schuylerville DepositSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed DepositSilicaPast Producer1922, 1927

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Edward, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Edward$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Edward$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindFort Edward$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington County

Maps showing this location

12 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
Thomson District No. 10 School2.9 miles2024
DeRidder Homestead4.5 miles1974
Village of Greenwich Historic District6.5 miles1995
Old Fort House6.7 miles1983
St. James Episcopal Church7.1 miles1998
Fort Edward D&H Train Station7.3 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96001431 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 52 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.