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Photograph of Your Home Public Library
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Your Home Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Your Home Public Library is a historic library building located at Johnson City in Broome County, New York. Originally the Brigham Homestead built in 1850 by Elijah Brigham, the building was replaced with a Late Victorian style building created as a residence in 1885.”

Wikipedia article Your Home Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 66 National Register listings published here for Broome 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

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 107 Main St., Johnson City, 13790
  • When was it listed? October 2005
  • Category. building
  • Town. Union town
  • Architect. Truman I. Lacey
  • National Register reference number. 05001138 - 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

659 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 659 fires within 5 miles of Your Home Library between 1993 and 2020, burning about 423 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 60 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/undetermined316
Smoking86
Recreation and ceremony66
Arson/incendiarism60
Debris and open burning33
Natural33
Equipment and vehicle use30
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Other causes3
Railroad operations and maintenance3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2010Smoking1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Broome County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Your Home Library: 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Clay, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Boland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Binghampton Brick Co. PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Binghampton Brick Co. PitClayPlant
Brown No.1 WellSaltProspect
Chase-Troy Chem.Co.No.1 WellSaltProspect

Every working recorded in Broome County

Storms near this property

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnson City, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Flash FloodJohnson City$30,000A culvert washout with road damage was reported on Leigh Street.
May 2004LightningJohnson City$10,000Lightning struck a power line running between two substations. Nearly 5,900 customers lost power for close to 2 hours.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindJohnson City$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees.
May 2015Flash FloodJohnson City$2,000Water, along with mud and rocks washed over Deyo Hill road near the Town of Dickinson line.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindJohnson City$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds snapped a large tree near Harry L Drive and Virginia Avenue.
August 2009Flash FloodJohnson City$1,000Glenwood Road was closed due to flooding, with a couple of feet of water covering the road.
December 2006Thunderstorm WindJohnson City-A wind gust was measured at 66 mph at WBNG TV.|
April 2005HailJohnson City-Law enforcement officials reported dime to nickle size hail with a thunderstorm.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindJohnson City-Thunderstorm winds brought down power lines and left 870 people without power.
June 2000HailJohnson City-Dime size hail was reported by a storm spotter in Johnson City.
July 2025HailJohnson City-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindJohnson City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Broome County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Endicott Square Deal Arch0.2 miles2001
Johnson City Historic District0.3 miles2011
C. Fred Johnson Park Carousel0.3 miles1992
Goodwill Theatre0.3 miles2000
General Cigar Company-Ansco Camera Factory Building0.4 miles2012
US Post Office-Johnson City0.5 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05001138 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Broome CountyAll 66 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.