Photograph of Chenango Canal — Photograph by Lvklock, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Chenango Canal Summit Level

Built in 1833. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“The Chenango Canal was a towpath canal in central New York in the United States which linked the Susquehanna River to the Erie Canal. Built and operated in the mid-19th century, it was 97 miles long and for much of its course followed the Chenango River, along New York State Route 12 from Binghamton on the south end to Utica on the north.”
Wikipedia article Chenango Canal, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 2005 · category: District · built in 1833.

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

The listing

Address. Along Canal Rd., Bouckville, 13310
When was it listed? July 2005
Category. district
Also known as. Historic and Engineering Resources of the Chenango Canal MPS
Town. Madison town
When was it built? 1833
National Register reference number. 05000684 - 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

94 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Chenango Canal Summit Level between 1999 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 19 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	49
Arson/incendiarism	19
Natural	15
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chenango Canal Summit Level: 1 past producer. None of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Melvin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bouckville, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2018: 1 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 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Bouckville	$25,000	A microburst resulted in downed trees and wires on Falin and Canal roads near Route 26. Winds also led to roof damage at a residence on Canal road.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Bouckville	$10,000	Route 12B washed out near Hinman Road.

Every storm recorded in Madison County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1902 USGS Morrisville quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1943 USGS Munnsville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1944 USGS Munnsville quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich 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
Coolidge Stores Building	0.7 miles	2001
Adon Smith House	3.6 miles	1974
Hamilton Village Historic District	3.9 miles	1984
Old Biology Hall	4.3 miles	1973
US Post Office-Hamilton	4.3 miles	1989
Old Madison County Courthouse	4.8 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000684 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 83 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.