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Howland, Charles- William H. Chase House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Chase House is a historic home located at Union Springs in Cayuga County, New York. It was built about 1840 and is a remarkably intact two-story, five-bay, center-hall limestone dwelling in the Greek Revival style.”

Wikipedia article Charles Howland-William H. Chase House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Cayuga County · listed in 2005 · 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Howland, Charles-- William H. Chase House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 188 Cayuga St., Union Springs, 13160
  • When was it listed? January 2005
  • Category. building
  • Town. Springport town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 04001456 - 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

41 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Howland, Charles- William H. Chase House between 2003 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Smoking1
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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Cayuga 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 Howland, Charles- William H. Chase House: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Cayuga Junction QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Cross Roads Station QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Hibiscus Point QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1994Thunderstorm WindUnion Springs$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cayuga County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

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
First Presbyterian Church of Springport0.2 miles2025
Almeron Durkee House0.9 miles2005
William Richardson House2.8 miles2005
Peter Yawger House3.2 miles2004
Hutchinson Homestead5.1 miles2009
North Street Friends Meetinghouse6.0 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001456 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cayuga CountyAll 71 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.