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Photograph of Dayton-Williams House
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dayton-Williams House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Dayton-Williams House is a historic home located at Middle Granville in Washington County, New York. It was built about 1820 and is a two-story, five-bay, center entrance, gable end brick building.”

Wikipedia article Dayton-Williams House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Washington 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 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Dayton--Williams House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 65 Dayton Hill Rd., Middle Granville, 12849
  • When was it listed? November 2006
  • Category. building
  • Town. Granville town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 06001000 - 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

1893 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Dayton-Williams House, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet covering Dayton-Williams House, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

100 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Dayton-Williams House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined45
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVermont Division of ForestryWELLS
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2015Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersGUILDER HOLLOW FIRE
30 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 103 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 103 workings within 5 miles of Dayton-Williams House: 59 past producers, 43 producers, 1 occurrence. 43 still produce. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Smiths Basin QuarriesLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1882, 1925
Eagle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mccullen Slate Quarry No. 1 & 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Penrhyn Red QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Penryhn Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Red QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shurbert QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Williams Bros. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Arvon Robert QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerMetamorphic
Bullfrog Hollow Quarry (Taran Slate Co.)Stone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middle Granville, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMiddle Granville-A tree was downed on wires on Fox Knoll Way in the Town of Granville.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMiddle Granville-Two trees and some branches were downed.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMiddle Granville-Trees and wires were downed in Middle Granville.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMiddle Granville-A tree was downed in the roadway on Route 22A.
June 2008HailMiddle Granville-Penny size hail was reported approximately 3 miles northwest in Granville during a thunderstorm.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMiddle Granville-A pig house was blown over on a farm approximately 3 miles northwest of Granville.

Every storm recorded in Washington County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06001000 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 52 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.