Sherwood Family Estate

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

“Sherwood Family Estate is a historic farm and national historic district located at Delhi in Delaware County, New York. The district contains four contributing buildings and one contributing site.”
Wikipedia article Sherwood Family Estate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 484 Sherwood Rd., Dehli, 13753
When was it listed? December 2002
Category. district
Town. Delhi town
National Register reference number. 02001648 - 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

39 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Sherwood Family Estate between 1995 and 2016, burning about 71 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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	27
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
28 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 May 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	4.8 acres	New York Forest Rangers	BELL HILL FIRE
28 May 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

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 Sherwood Family Estate: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
	Howe Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working 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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1909 USGS Delhi quadrangle1:62500
1911 USGS Delhi quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Delhi quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
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
First Presbyterian Church	1.0 miles	2006
US Post Office-Delhi	1.3 miles	1988
Delaware County Courthouse Square District	1.4 miles	1973
St. John's Church Complex	1.4 miles	1995
Murray Hill	1.7 miles	1982
Judge Gideon Frisbee House	3.3 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001648 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.