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Newwark Valley Municipal Building and Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Newark Valley Municipal Building and Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library is a historic municipal building and library building located at Newark Valley in Tioga County, New York. The municipal building is a brick building with a cut stone foundation and full basement built in 1887 as the Union Free School and Academy.”
Wikipedia article Newark Valley Municipal Building and Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Tioga 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Newwark Valley Municipal Building and Tappan--Spaulding Memorial Library - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 9 Park St. and 8 Rock St., Newark Valley, 13811
When was it listed? November 2006
Category. building
Also known as. Newark Valley MPS
Town. Newark Valley town
Architect. Truman I. Lacey
National Register reference number. 06000971 - 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.

Then and now

1901 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Newwark Valley Municipal Building and Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet covering Newwark Valley Municipal Building and Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library, surveyed 1901

Fires near this property

99 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Newwark Valley Municipal Building and Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library between 1999 and 2020, burning about 99 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 9 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	51
Debris and open burning	20
Natural	13
Arson/incendiarism	9
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
9 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Tioga County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Newwark Valley Municipal Building and Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, 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
	C.Miller No.1 Well	Salt	Prospect
	Owego Town of Highway Dept Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tioga County

Storms near this property

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newark Valley, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 1996: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark Valley	$15,000	An isolated severe thunderstorm downed large trees and wires, and blew the top off an old barn.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark Valley	$8,000	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark Valley	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark Valley	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tioga County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1901 USGS Apalachin quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Apalachin quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1906 USGS Catatonk quadrangle1:125000
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Endicott quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1956 USGS Newark Valley quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Newark Valley quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Knapp House	under 500 feet	1998
Gilbert E. Purple House	0.3 miles	2004
Nowland House	0.3 miles	1997
Silk Street Bridge	0.7 miles	1998
Bement-Billings House	0.9 miles	1990
Morris Clinton House	0.9 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000971 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tioga County	All 57 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.