Skinner-Tinkham House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Skinner-Tinkham House, commonly known as the Barre Center Tavern, is located at Maple Street and Oak Orchard Road in Barre Center, New York, United States. It is a brick house in the Federal style built around 1830.”
Wikipedia article Skinner-Tinkham House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Orleans County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Skinner--Tinkham House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4652 Oak Orchard Rd., Barre Center, 14411
When was it listed? April 2004
Category. building
Town. Barre town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 04000291 - 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

118 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Skinner-Tinkham House between 2001 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 23 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	55
Arson/incendiarism	23
Natural	13
Debris and open burning	9
Smoking	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orleans 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 Skinner-Tinkham House: 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. 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
Manning Peat Bog Prospects	Lead, Zinc	Prospect
Barre Sand, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Huckell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Orleans County

Maps showing this location

9 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 Albion quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1944 USGS Albion quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Albion quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1950 USGS Albion quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1952 USGS Albion quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 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
William V. N. Barlow House	3.7 miles	1983
Orleans County Courthouse Historic District	4.1 miles	1979
Mt. Albion Cemetery	4.2 miles	1976
North Main-Bank Streets Historic District	4.5 miles	1994
Tousley-Church House	4.6 miles	2002
Gaines District No. 2 Cobblestone Schoolhouse	5.1 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000291 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orleans County	All 30 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.