Cobblestone Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Cobblestone Inn is located along Ridge Road in Oak-Orchard-on-the-Ridge, an unincorporated hamlet in the Town of Ridgeway, New York, United States. It is a cobblestone building dating to the 1830s.”
Wikipedia article Cobblestone Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Orleans 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 12226 Ridge Rd., Oak Orchard, 14103
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. building
Also known as. Cobblestone Architecture of New York State MPS
Town. Ridgeway town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 07000755 - 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

109 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Cobblestone Inn between 2000 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 21 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	64
Arson/incendiarism	21
Natural	8
Smoking	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orleans County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cobblestone Inn: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit No 5	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit No 6	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rorick Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Orleans County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1897 USGS Ridgeway quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1944 USGS Ashwood quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Ashwood quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Ridgeway quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1952 USGS Ashwood quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1984 USGS Lockport 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
Jackson Blood Cobblestone House	4.1 miles	2005
Boxwood Cemetery	4.2 miles	2015
Payjack Chevrolet Building	4.4 miles	2012
T.O. Castle and Son General Store	4.6 miles	2023
Main Street Historic District	4.6 miles	1995
US Post Office-Medina	4.6 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000755 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orleans County	All 30 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.