Amzi Bradley Farmstead

Built in 1836 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Amzi Bradley Farmstead is a historic home located at Hartland in Niagara County, New York. It is a two-story cobblestone structure built in 1836 by Connecticut native Amzi Bradley, in the Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Amzi Bradley Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Niagara County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1836, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

Listed as. Bradley, Amzi, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 8915 Bradley Rd., Hartland, 14105
When was it listed? November 2002
Category. building
Also known as. Cobblestone Architecture of New York State MPS
Town. Hartland town
When was it built? 1836
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 02001332 - 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

74 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Amzi Bradley Farmstead between 2000 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 19 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	30
Arson/incendiarism	19
Debris and open burning	10
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartland, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy snow, 1 heavy rain. 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
January 1999	Heavy Snow	Hartland	$100,000	no account filed
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartland	$20,000	A tree fell onto a house with multiple reports of wires down.
October 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartland	$15,000	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartland	$5,000	no account filed
July 2020	Heavy Rain	Hartland	-	Rainfall of 2.03 inches fell in less than 90 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Niagara County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1897 USGS Olcott quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1899 USGS Niagara quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
1948 USGS Olcott quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Barker quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Barker quadrangle1:24000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1980 USGS Barker quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Lockport 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
District #10 Schoolhouse	1.8 miles	2000
Harrington Colbblestone Farmhouse and Barn Complex	1.8 miles	2005
Constant Riley W. Bixby House	1.9 miles	2002
Newton, Philo Cobblestone House	3.6 miles	2002
US Post Office-Middleport	4.9 miles	1989
William Taylor House	5.2 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001332 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Niagara County	All 99 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.
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.