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Photograph of Constant Riley W. Bixby House
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Constant Riley W. Bixby House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Bixby House is a historic house located at 2888 Carmen Road in Hartland, Niagara County, New York.”

Wikipedia article Constant Riley W. Bixby House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Niagara 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

  • Listed as. Bixby, Constant Riley W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 2888 Carmen Rd., Hartland, 14105
  • When was it listed? November 2002
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Cobblestone Architecture of New York State MPS
  • Town. Hartland town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 02001333 - 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

62 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Constant Riley W. Bixby House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Constant Riley W. Bixby House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Medina Sandstone Quarry, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rorick Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1999Heavy SnowHartland$100,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHartland$20,000A tree fell onto a house with multiple reports of wires down.
October 1999Thunderstorm WindHartland$15,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindHartland$5,000no account filed
July 2020Heavy RainHartland-Rainfall of 2.03 inches fell in less than 90 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Niagara County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

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
District #10 Schoolhouse1.7 miles2000
Harrington Colbblestone Farmhouse and Barn Complex1.7 miles2005
Amzi Bradley Farmstead1.9 miles2002
Newton, Philo Cobblestone House3.2 miles2002
US Post Office-Middleport3.2 miles1989
William Taylor House3.5 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001333 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Niagara CountyAll 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.
  • 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.