Vischer Ferry Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Vischer Ferry Historic District is a historic district in Saratoga County, New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and its boundaries were increased in 1997.”
Wikipedia article Vischer Ferry Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 1997 · category: District.
National Register reference number.97000530- 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
676 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 676 fires within 5 miles of Vischer Ferry Historic District (Boundary Increase)
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 717 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 101 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
382
Arson/incendiarism
101
Smoking
65
Natural
38
Debris and open burning
28
Misuse of fire by a minor
27
Equipment and vehicle use
21
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
5
Recreation and ceremony
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
13 workings within 5 miles of Vischer Ferry Historic District (Boundary Increase): 8 producers, 5 past producers.
8 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Vischer Ferry, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 tornado.
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.
A National Weather Service storm survey determined that an EF1 tornado touched down in Vischer Ferry. The tornado tore the roof off a well-built shed near the intersection of Riverview Road and Willow Springs Drive. In addition, the tornado blew out windows of a home, shifted a barn off its foundation and damaged approximately 100 trees. The tornado was on the ground just shy of one mile before lifting. The same supercell thunderstorm responsible for producing this tornado also produced another tornado further west across Montgomery and Schencetady counties.
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.
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.
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.
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