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Newton, Philo Cobblestone House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Philo Newton Cobblestone House is a historic home located at Hartland in Niagara County, New York. It was built about 1830 by Philo Newton, and is a cobblestone dwelling in the Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Philo Newton Cobblestone 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

Address. 3573 Wruck 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. 02001334 - 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

85 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Newton, Philo Cobblestone House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 25 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	28
Arson/incendiarism	25
Debris and open burning	11
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	5
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
30 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
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
29 August 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

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 Newton, Philo Cobblestone House: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Royalton Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Royalton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

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.

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

12 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 Lockport quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Niagara quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
1902 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1905 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1950 USGS Gasport quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Gasport quadrangle1:24000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1979 USGS Gasport quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
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
Harrington Colbblestone Farmhouse and Barn Complex	1.8 miles	2005
US Post Office-Middleport	3.0 miles	1989
William Taylor House	3.2 miles	2012
Constant Riley W. Bixby House	3.2 miles	2002
Amzi Bradley Farmstead	3.6 miles	2002
District #10 Schoolhouse	4.7 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001334 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.
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.