Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
From the record
“George and Addison Wheeler House, also known as Old Place, is a historic home located at East Bloomfield in Ontario County, New York. The Greek Revival-style home was built in two sections in about 1818 and 1840.”
Wikipedia article George and Addison Wheeler House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 78 National Register listings published here for Ontario County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.05000168- 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
125 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 125 fires within 5 miles of George and Addison Wheeler House
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 133 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 25 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
44
Arson/incendiarism
25
Debris and open burning
22
Smoking
14
Natural
7
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
11 workings within 5 miles of George and Addison Wheeler House: 8 past producers, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Natural Gas. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
East Bloomfield, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 10 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.
Multiple hardwood trees were reported down at Flatiron Road and U.S. Highway 20. Limbs were also down nearby with shingles blown off the roof of an antique shop. Damage consistent with a microburst continued east-northeast into Canandaigua that included the overturning of a mobile sign and recreational vehicle as well as trees and limbs down along North Pearl Stree and Buffalo Street Extension.
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.
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.
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.
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