Amos Bristol Tavern

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

“Amos Bristol Tavern is a historic inn and tavern located at West Meredith in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was built about 1800 and is a two-story, five bay building of post and beam construction with wooden plank walls.”
Wikipedia article Amos Bristol Tavern, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Listed as. Bristol, Amos, Tavern - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Cty Rte 14, West Meredith, 13753
When was it listed? December 2000
Category. building
Town. Meredith town
National Register reference number. 00001526 - 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

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Amos Bristol Tavern between 1993 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 May 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 May 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
26 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Amos Bristol Tavern: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Natural Gas. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	M.Hazlett No.1 Well	Salt, Natural Gas	Prospect

Every working recorded in Delaware 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.

1915 USGS Oneonta quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Oneonta quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Treadwell quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1945 USGS Treadwell quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
West Meredith Cemetery	0.6 miles	2003
West Delhi Presbyterian Church, Manse, and Cemetery	3.2 miles	2008
Schoolhouse No. 5	6.5 miles	2011
US Post Office-Delhi	6.9 miles	1988
St. John's Church Complex	6.9 miles	1995
First Presbyterian Church	6.9 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001526 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware County	All 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.