William Richardson 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

“William Richardson House is a historic home located at Union Springs in Cayuga County, New York. It was built about 1830 and is a remarkably intact late Federal / early Greek Revival-style farmhouse.”
Wikipedia article William Richardson 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

Listed as. Richardson, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 5494 Cross Rd., Union Springs, 13034
When was it listed? March 2005
Category. building
Town. Springport town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 05000160 - 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

63 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of William Richardson House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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	28
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 William Richardson 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cayuga Junction Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Cross Roads Station Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Hibiscus Point Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Union Springs	$5,000	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 Auburn quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1943 USGS Cayuga quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Cayuga quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500 - 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
Peter Yawger House	1.5 miles	2004
Howland, Charles- William H. Chase House	2.8 miles	2005
First Presbyterian Church of Springport	3.0 miles	2025
Hutchinson Homestead	3.1 miles	2009
Almeron Durkee House	3.6 miles	2005
West High School	5.8 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000160 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.