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Beardslee Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Beardslee Farm is a national historic district and farmstead located at Pittsfield in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses five contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure.”

Wikipedia article Beardslee Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego 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

  • Address. NY 80 at Cty Rd. 18, Pittsfield, 13411
  • When was it listed? June 2000
  • Category. district
  • Town. Pittsfield town
  • National Register reference number. 00000748 - 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Beardslee Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning21
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2020Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
22 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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 Beardslee Farm: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, 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
C.C.Lobdell No.1 WellSaltProspect
New Berlin Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pittsfield, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003Thunderstorm WindPittsfield$15,000Trees and wires down in Pittsfield, Morris, and New Lisbon.
December 2023Flash FloodPittsfield$10,000A bridge is being impacted by flooding.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindPittsfield$10,000Roof blown off of a barn from strong thunderstorm winds.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPittsfield$8,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindPittsfield$5,000no account filed
March 2022Thunderstorm WindPittsfield$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree and wires onto a roadway.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPittsfield$2,000Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPittsfield$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
May 2000Flash FloodPittsfield-Numerous roads were closed and bridges damaged due to flooding following heavy thunderstorm rains. Several families had to be evacuated from residences endangered by rising water.
June 2014HailPittsfield-no account filed
May 2011HailPittsfield-no account filed
May 2011HailPittsfield-no account filed
June 2008HailPittsfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000748 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otsego CountyAll 79 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.