Spirit House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Spirit House, also known as Timothy Brown House or Brown's Hall, is a historic home located at Georgetown in Madison County, New York. It was built about 1865 and is essentially a square, wood-frame structure.”
Wikipedia article Spirit House (Georgetown, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 26, Georgetown, 13155
When was it listed? March 2006
Category. building
National Register reference number. 06000160 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Spirit House between 1999 and 2017, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	6
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Natural	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
7 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 April 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
27 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 April 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 April 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 April 2009	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	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 Spirit House: 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
	Otselic Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgetown, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
August 2021	Flash Flood	Georgetown	$10,000	Flash flooding occurred on Route 26. Ditch scouring and a couple washouts were observed.
August 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Georgetown	$10,000	A tornado briefly touched down along Parker Hill Road in Georgetown, NY. The tornado did extensive damage to a forest largely composed of Norway spruce and other softwood conifers. The tornado damage path was very narrow only being 30 yards wide. Maximum winds were estimated at 90 mph.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Georgetown	$10,000	Route 26 was closed due to a mudslide over the roadway.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires on Lebanon Road.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted a large tree and knocked down multiple smaller trees.
July 2024	Funnel Cloud	Georgetown	-	A local news station shared information of a funnel cloud spotted north of Georgetown.
May 2013	Hail	Georgetown	-	Some hail was slightly bigger than 2 inches in diameter.
July 2010	Hail	Georgetown	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Georgetown	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Georgetown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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.

1903 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Otselic quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1944 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1944 USGS Otselic 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

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000160 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.