New Hope Mills Complex

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

From the record

“The New Hope Mills Complex is a historic grist mill complex located on Glen Haven Road near the intersection with Route 41A in the hamlet of New Hope in the town of Niles in Cayuga County, New York. The complex includes the mill building, two vernacular dwellings, a 1910s gambrel roofed storage barn, a 1935 saw mill, two concrete faced dams, and a 1-acre (4,000 m2) mill pond.”
Wikipedia article New Hope Mills Complex, 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

Address. Glen Haven Rd. and NY 41A, New Hope, 13118
When was it listed? March 2005
Category. building
Town. Niles town
National Register reference number. 05000158 - 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

42 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of New Hope Mills Complex between 2002 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 July 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not 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 New Hope Mills Complex: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
O'Toole Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Town of Niles Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Town of Niles Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Hope, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
July 1996	Hail	New Hope	$10,000	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	New Hope	$10,000	no account filed
May 2025	Flash Flood	New Hope	$5,000	State Highway 41A was reported washed out by flood waters.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	New Hope	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree.
June 2015	Hail	New Hope	$4,000	A severe thunderstorm developed over the area and produced half dollar sized hail.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	New Hope	$2,500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
April 2006	Hail	New Hope	-	no 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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1899 USGS Skaneateles quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Skaneateles quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1943 USGS Spafford quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Skaneateles quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Spafford quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Auburn 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
North Main Street Historic District	6.9 miles	1993
House at 15 East Cayuga Street	7.0 miles	1995
Henry Allen House	7.0 miles	1995
Sager House	7.0 miles	1995
House at 21 West Cayuga Street	7.1 miles	1995
House at 31 West Cayuga Street	7.1 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000158 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cayuga County	All 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.