Old City Road Stone Arch Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Old City Road Stone Arch Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge located near Welch Corners in Herkimer County, New York. It was constructed in 1898 and spans City Brook, a tributary of West Canada Creek.”
Wikipedia article Old City Road Stone Arch Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 2001 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Old City Rd., Welch Corners
When was it listed? December 2001
Category. structure
Town. Fairfield town
National Register reference number. 01001398 - 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Old City Road Stone Arch Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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	23
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 2002	Natural	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Old City Road Stone Arch Bridge: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Middleville Number 6 Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Middleville Number 6 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gravesville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Material Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

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.

1900 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1939 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Middleville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1946 USGS Middleville quadrangle1:31680
1949 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gloversville 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
James Keith House and Brown-Morey-Davis Farm	1.6 miles	2014
Masonic Temple-Newport Lodge No. 445 F. & A.M.	2.0 miles	2010
Newport Stone Arch Bridge	2.2 miles	1992
Yale-Cady Octagon House and Yale Lock Factory Site	2.6 miles	2007
Perry, Stuart and William Swezey Houses	2.6 miles	2012
Route 29 Stone Arch Bridge	2.6 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001398 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Herkimer County	All 74 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.