Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“Coverdale Cobblestone House is a historic home located at Leicester in Livingston County, New York. It was completed in 1837 and has a 2-story, three-by-four-bay cobblestone main block, a kitchen wing, and a 1-story cobblestone and frame carriage shed.”
Wikipedia article Coverdale Cobblestone House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
Also known as. Cobblestone Architecture of New York State MPS
Town. Leicester town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture
National Register reference number.05000989- 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
118 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Coverdale Cobblestone House
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 31 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
61
Arson/incendiarism
31
Natural
10
Debris and open burning
7
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Smoking
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
14 workings within 5 miles of Coverdale Cobblestone House: 8 past producers, 5 producers, 1 plant.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Natural Gas, Halite, Potassium, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Leicester, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail.
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.
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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