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John Carter Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1950.

From the record

“John Carter Farmstead is a historic farmhouse and bank barn located at Youngstown in Niagara County, New York. It consists of a brick dwelling constructed in 1858 in the Italianate style and a brick bank barn, constructed in 1857.”

Wikipedia article John Carter Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Niagara County · listed in 2007 · 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. Carter, John, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 206 Lake Rd., Youngstown, 14174
  • When was it listed? May 2007
  • Category. building
  • Town. Porter town
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 07000490 - 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

48 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of John Carter Farmstead between 2003 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning3
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3

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
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Youngstown, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 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
June 2019FloodYoungstown$1,000,000no account filed
May 2019FloodYoungstown$1,000,000no account filed
July 2019FloodYoungstown$500,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindYoungstown$250,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindYoungstown$150,000no account filed
August 2019FloodYoungstown$25,000no account filed
October 1999Thunderstorm WindYoungstown$10,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindYoungstown$5,000A tree was downed on a vehicle and a home in Youngstown.
June 2008HailYoungstown$5,000no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindYoungstown$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Niagara County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
St. John's Episcopal Church0.8 miles1990
Fort Niagara Light0.8 miles1984
Casemates0.8 miles1966
North Redoubt0.8 miles1966
South Redoubt0.8 miles1966
French Castle0.9 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000490 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Niagara CountyAll 99 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.
  • 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.