Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.
From the record
“Copeland Bridge, also known as Copeland Farm Bridge or Copeland Covered Bridge, is a wooden covered bridge over Beecher Creek in the town of Edinburg in Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1879, and is a small, timber framed, queenpost truss bridge with a gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Copeland Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.98000998- 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
1899 to 1997
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18991997
Fires near this property
94 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Copeland Covered Bridge
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 187 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 7 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
28
Debris and open burning
24
Natural
13
Recreation and ceremony
8
Arson/incendiarism
7
Smoking
7
Fireworks
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
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
9 workings within 5 miles of Copeland Covered Bridge: 8 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Beryllium, Mica, Feldspar, Quartz. 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
Edinburg, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 16 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.
A cold front moved into eastern New York on the afternoon of July 25th resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of the area. The majority of damage from thunderstorm winds consisted of downed trees and powerlines. A Lightning strike also caused a fire which damaged a home in Herkimer. The most significant damage occurred in Cortland County where flash flooding occurred along Grout Brook and Cold Brook in the Towns of Scott and Preble. Among the areas hardest hit were Webber Park, Cold Brook Road, West Scott Road, Long Road, and Old State Road.
A cold front swept across eastern New York on the afternoon of the 16th resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of eastern New York. Trees and wires were downed in Frankfort, Edinburg, Galway and Providence, while limbs and wires were downed in Accord and Stoneridge. In Bearsville, thunderstorm winds gusted to between 60 and 65 mph.
A 73 mph wind gust was recorded at the New York State Mesonet at Edinburg. The station webcam showed a nearby shed blown over following this wind gust.
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.
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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