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Photograph of Riverside Train Station
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Riverside Train Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Riverside station is a historic railroad station located at Riparius, Warren County, New York. It was built in 1913 and is a one-story, rectangular, hipped roof frame building with covered platforms at each end.”

Wikipedia article Riverside station (New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Warren County · listed in 1997 · 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 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of Hudson R. and NY 8, Hamlet of Riparius, Johnsburg, 12862
  • When was it listed? June 1997
  • Category. building
  • Town. Johnsburg town
  • Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
  • National Register reference number. 97000471 - 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Riverside Train Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 121 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning22
Recreation and ceremony15
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
3 September 2001Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
28 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPALMER POND
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution2.5 acresNew York Forest RangersWASHER HILL

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Riverside Train Station: 5 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Garnet, Sulfur-Pyrite, Feldspar, Graphite. 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
Oven Mountain MineGarnet, Sulfur-Pyrite, FeldsparPast Producer1897, 1925
Potterville ProspectGraphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, MicaOccurrenceGraphite, Phlogopite, Pyrite
Johnsburg DepositGarnetProspect
Oven Mountain DepositGarnetPast Producer
Rexford DepositGarnetPast Producer
Rexford MineGarnetPast Producer1892, 1897
Sander Brothers MineGarnetPast Producer1907, 1912, 1925
Wevertown DepositGarnetProspect

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this property

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnsburg, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2023Thunderstorm WindJohnsburg-A tree was reported down on Route 8 in Johnsburg.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindJohnsburg-Trees and wires were reported down at the intersection of Route 8 and Washer Hill Road in Johnsburg as a result of thunderstorm winds.
June 2005Flash FloodJohnsburg-Route 28 washed out in the town due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Warren County

Maps showing this location

10 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

3 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
Chestertown Historic District4.9 miles1977
North Creek Railroad Station Complex5.4 miles1976
Heintzelman Library7.5 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000471 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Warren CountyAll 76 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.