Seneca River Crossing Canals Historic District

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

From the record

“Seneca River Crossing Canals Historic District is a national historic district located at Montezuma and Tyre in Cayuga and Seneca Counties, New York. The district includes more than a mile of the Enlarged Erie Canal prism ; towpath and heelpath; a drydock; the remains of the Richmond (Montezuma) Aqueduct crossing the Seneca River; remnants of the original Erie Canal, built between 1817 and 1825 and including Lock #62 and piers of the original mule bridge from that era; and a culvert that carries a stream beneath the Enlarged Erie Canal.”
Wikipedia article Seneca River Crossing Canals Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Cayuga County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Off NY 90, Montezuma and Tyre, 13117
When was it listed? December 2005
Category. district
Town. Montezuma town
National Register reference number. 05001397 - 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

106 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Seneca River Crossing Canals Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 803 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 41 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
Arson/incendiarism	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	9
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Cayuga 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 Seneca River Crossing Canals Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
	Seneca Falls Well No.12	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga 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 Weedsport quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1943 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1954 USGS Weedsport quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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
Mentz Church	2.0 miles	2004
Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex	4.4 miles	1998
Hutchinson Homestead	6.6 miles	2009
Centreport Aqueduct	7.3 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001397 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.