Built in 1851. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.
From the record
“William and Mary Hosmer House is a historic home located in Auburn in Cayuga County, New York. It is a two-story, three-bay, side hall frame house in a vernacular Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article William and Mary Hosmer House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 71 National Register listings published here for Cayuga County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1851.
Also known as. Freedom Trail, Abolitionism, and African American Life in Central New York MPS
City. Auburn city
When was it built? 1851
National Register reference number.06000262- 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
213 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 213 fires within 5 miles of William and Mary Hosmer House
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 125 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 42 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
119
Arson/incendiarism
42
Debris and open burning
15
Smoking
13
Natural
11
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Recreation and ceremony
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Other causes
1
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
5 workings within 5 miles of William and Mary Hosmer House: 3 producers, 2 past producers.
3 still produce. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Auburn, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 29 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 5 lightning, 4 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.
Thunderstorm winds downed trees. The wind also ripped off the roof of the landfill maintenance building. The roof was blown across the street into a radio station service structure. The roof also snapped wires and utility poles as it crossed the street. 4,400 electric customers were without power.
Lightning struck the jail and the sheriff's department in Sennett knocking out 911 service briefly. This strike damaged the radio tower. Another lightning strike hit the Auburn Police Department's transmitter.
Thunderstorm winds brought down two high voltage powerlines just outside the city of Auburn. This resulted in a loss of power for approximately 5000 people over a six county area.
Lightning started a fire on the second floor of a garage on Cayuga Street. The fire in the garage was quickly extinguished. The lightning also shorted out the kitchen wiring and telephones in the nearby house.
Newspaper reports indicate that a thunderstorm with frequent lightning strikes caused numerous power disruptions by knocking down power lines. A tree and a bank on Grant Avenue were struck with significant damage being done to the chimney on the bank.
A storm spotter reported trees and wires down with an estimated wind speed of 60 MPH in Auburn. Localized street flooding was reported along Cottage Street and North Street. Thunderstorm winds also knocked down trees in Owasco, Montezuma, and New Hope.
Reports of dime size hail were recieved from the media. Lightning strikes also left 158 homes without power and heavy rain caused ponding of water on roadways.
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.
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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