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John W. McCarty House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
From the record
“McCarty House is a historic home located at Candor in Tioga County, New York. It was built in 1850 and is an early expression of Italianate style architecture, with later Queen Anne style modifications.”
Wikipedia article John W. McCarty House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 57 National Register listings published here for Tioga County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.01000249- 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
1903 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19031992
Fires near this property
61 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 61 fires within 5 miles of John W. McCarty House
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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
15
Arson/incendiarism
8
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Smoking
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Natural
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
1 working within 5 miles of John W. McCarty House: 1 producer.
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Candor, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 22 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning.
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 thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in trees and wires being knocked over and landed on a house on Fairfield Road.
A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in a few trees being knocked over near Candor, Village of Owego and Newark valley.
A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over a few trees between Spencer and Candor.
A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked down wires across the roadway in the vicinity of Tutlle Hill Road.
1 inch diameter hail was reported by storm spotters in Candor, with some accumulation noted. Local newspaper reports also noted many trees and wires down with 100 residents left without power from Candor to Catatonk.
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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