Burns Family Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Burns Family Farm is a historic farm and national historic district located at Bovina in Delaware County, New York. The district contains seven contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structures.”
Wikipedia article Burns Family Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Crescent Valley Rd., Bovina, 13740
When was it listed? May 2007
Category. district
Town. Bovina town
National Register reference number. 07000486 - 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

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Burns Family Farm between 1997 and 2016, burning about 117 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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	19
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
12 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 May 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 May 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1904 USGS Hobart quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1945 USGS Hobart quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1946 USGS Hobart 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 Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
McNaught Family Farm	3.2 miles	2019
Thomson Family Farm	3.9 miles	2004
Walter Stratton House	4.4 miles	2002
Woodchuck Lodge (Burroughs, John, Home)	4.8 miles	1966
Walter Coulter Homestead Farm	4.9 miles	2025
St. Peter's Episcopal Church Complex	4.9 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000486 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware County	All 78 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.