Hobart Masonic Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Hobart Masonic Hall is a historic building located in the village of Hobart in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was originally constructed in 1889 as a meeting hall for St.”
Wikipedia article Hobart Masonic Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 6 Cornell Ave., Hobart, 13788
When was it listed? December 2001
Category. building
Town. Stamford town
National Register reference number. 01001399 - 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

52 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Hobart Masonic Hall between 1999 and 2019, burning about 106 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 6 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	24
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
21 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 June 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 May 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

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 Hobart Masonic Hall: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Town of Harpersfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hobart, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hobart	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hobart	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Hobart	$2,000	Water was flowing across the roads.

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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1904 USGS Hobart quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1945 USGS Hobart quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1946 USGS Hobart quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
St. Peter's Episcopal Church Complex	0.2 miles	1998
Churchill Park Historic District	3.6 miles	1980
Erskine L. Seeley House	3.7 miles	2010
Burns Family Farm	5.1 miles	2007
McArthur-Martin Hexadecagon Barn	5.8 miles	1984
McNaught Family Farm	6.2 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001399 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.
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.