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Photograph of Timothy M. Younglove Octagon House
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Timothy M. Younglove Octagon House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Younglove Octagon House built in 1859 is an historic octagonal house located at 8329 Pleasant Valley Road in the town of Urbana near Hammondsport, New York. It was built by land surveyor Timothy Meigs Younglove, who surveyed Hammondport when it was incorporated.”

Wikipedia article Timothy M. Younglove Octagon House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Steuben County · listed in 2002 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Younglove, Timothy M., Octagon House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 8329 Pleasant Valley Rd., Urbana, 14840
  • When was it listed? August 2002
  • Category. building
  • Town. Urbana town
  • National Register reference number. 02000877 - 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

50 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Timothy M. Younglove Octagon House between 1998 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
15 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPIGTAIL FIRE #2
11 September 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNew York Forest RangersURBANA FIRE
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Timothy M. Younglove Octagon House: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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.Champlin No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Winding Stairs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Winding Stairs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Urbana, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail. 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
October 2021Flash FloodNorth Urbana$50,000Houses flooding along Coryell Road in the Town of Wayne.
May 2004HailUrbana$25,0001.00 inch hail.
January 2010Flash FloodNorth Urbana$10,000Excessive rainfall caused a mudslide along County Route 16 in the Urbana area.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindUrbana$10,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Urbana$8,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a house. The roof over the porch was damaged and a window was broken.
October 2021Flash FloodUrbana$5,000Water flooding roadway in multiple locations near Grove Springs Road and Rose Road.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindUrbana$3,000Many trees were blown down.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindUrbana$2,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked down power lines.
August 2014HailUrbana-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Steuben County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Germania Wine Cellars0.3 miles2000
Pleasant Valley Wine Company0.6 miles1980
Village of Hammondsport Historic District0.9 miles2024
Mallory Mill1.0 miles1999
Hammondsport Union Free School1.0 miles2008
Pulteney Square Historic District1.1 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000877 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Steuben CountyAll 63 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.