Timeline of town creation in New York's Capital District

[1] The Capital District is an 11 county area, which consists of the counties of Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schoharie, Warren, Washington, Columbia, Montgomery, Fulton, and Greene.

[2] New York experimented with different types of municipalities before settling upon the current format of towns and cities occupying all the land in a county.

[1] Some other forms of government in earlier years included land patents with some municipal rights and boroughs.

The following timelines show the creation of the current towns from their predecessors stretching back to the earliest municipal entity over the area.

All municipalities are towns unless otherwise noted as patent, township, borough, district, or city.