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Photograph of Clifton Park Hotel
Photograph by Peter Flass, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Clifton Park Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Clifton Park Hotel is a historic hotel located at Clifton Park and Halfmoon in Saratoga County, New York. It was first erected in the 1820s and is a 2-story, timber-framed building sheathed in clapboards and topped by a gable roof.”

Wikipedia article Clifton Park Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 1998 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Old NY 146 and US 9, Clifton Park and Halfmoon, 12065
  • When was it listed? June 1998
  • Category. building
  • Town. Clifton Park town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 98000705 - 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

454 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 454 fires within 5 miles of Clifton Park Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 596 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 92 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/undetermined226
Arson/incendiarism92
Smoking33
Natural28
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Debris and open burning26
Equipment and vehicle use10
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Recreation and ceremony5

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 September 2001Smoking1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Clifton Park Hotel: 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Crescent Clay PitClayProducer
Mechcanicville Clay PitClayProducer
Collins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Collins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
G. Fannucci PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pollock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Willow Glen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Willow Glen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Willow Glen Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Maps showing this location

16 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
School No. 5 "The Little Red Schoolhouse"2.1 miles2025
Clifton Park Center Baptist Church and Cemetery3.1 miles2004
Smith's Grain and Feed Store3.2 miles2012
Crescent Methodist Episcopal Church3.5 miles2000
Noxon Bank Building3.5 miles2003
Church Hill Historic District3.5 miles2021

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000705 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saratoga CountyAll 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.