Godfrey Shew House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Godfrey Shew House is a historic home located at Fish House in Fulton County, New York. It was built in 1784 and is a 2-story, five-bay-wide and two-bay-deep, timber-frame, gable-roofed residence in the Federal style.”
Wikipedia article Godfrey Shew House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Shew, Godfrey, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1632 S. Shore Rd., Fish House, 12025
When was it listed? July 2006
Category. building
Town. Northampton town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 06000574 - 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Godfrey Shew House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 252 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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	36
Debris and open burning	24
Recreation and ceremony	14
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
22 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1899 USGS Broadalbin quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Broadalbin quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1945 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

3 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
Sacandaga Railroad Station	5.9 miles	2003
Northville Historic District	6.0 miles	2014
Hotel Broadalbin	7.1 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000574 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton County	All 25 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.