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Bovina Center Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

“Bovina Center Historic District is a national historic district located at Bovina Center in Delaware County, New York. The district contains 133 contributing buildings and one contributing structure.”

Wikipedia article Bovina Center Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Bovina Center Historic District between 1997 and 2016, burning about 45 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
2 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresNew York Forest RangersHOOD FIRE

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bovina Center Historic District: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bloomville Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kortright PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bovina Center, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBovina Center$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on Route 6.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBovina Center$8,000A tree fell on a car, with people trapped inside.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBovina Center$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees, blocking roads.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindBovina Center$5,000no account filed
June 2025HailBovina Center-no account filed
August 2023HailBovina Center-no account filed
August 2008HailBovina Center-no account filed
July 2008HailBovina Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

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.

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
Walter Coulter Homestead Farm3.1 miles2025
McNaught Family Farm3.7 miles2019
Andes Historic District5.0 miles1984
Bloomville Methodist Epicopal Church5.1 miles2006
Delaware and Northern Railroad Station5.1 miles2004
Christian Church5.3 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000574 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware CountyAll 78 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.