Drover's Tavern

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Drover's Tavern, also known as Travelers' & Drovers' Tavern, is a historic brick building in Oran, New York. According to HABS documentation, it was built in 1825 by Elisha Stanley.”
Wikipedia article Drover's Tavern, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 178 National Register listings published here for Onondaga County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4065 Pompey Hollow Rd., Oran, 13035
When was it listed? April 2003
Category. building
Town. Pompey town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 03000265 - 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

67 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Drover's Tavern between 1993 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 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	40
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	7
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 September 2019	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	MILL RUN FIRE
5 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Onondaga 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 Drover's Tavern: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Kinsella Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cazenovia Gravel Bed	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Crouse Gravel Bed	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Onondaga County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1897 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Oran quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Oran quadrangle1:31680
1943 USGS Oran quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Oran quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Norwich 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
Oran District No. 22 Schoolhouse	1.2 miles	1998
Oran Community Church	1.3 miles	2002
Pompey Centre District No. 10 Schoolhouse	3.5 miles	1998
Christ Church and Manlius Village Cemeteries	3.6 miles	2007
Manlius Village Historic District	3.9 miles	1973
Mycenae Schoolhouse	5.5 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000265 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Onondaga County	All 178 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.