Hastings Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

“Hastings Farmstead is a historic home and farm complex located at Dickinson Center in Franklin County, New York. The house was built in 1896 and is a T-shaped building with a main block, built of balloon frame construction with clapboard siding and decorative shingles in the Victorian style.”
Wikipedia article Hastings Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Franklin 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

Address. 12 Conservation Rd., Dickinson Center, 12930
When was it listed? August 2007
Category. building
Town. Dickinson town
National Register reference number. 07000872 - 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

1915 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Hastings Farmstead, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Hastings Farmstead, surveyed 1915

Fires near this property

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Hastings Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 17 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	54
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
7 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
12 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
13 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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 Hastings Farmstead: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
	Cox Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Moira Deposit	Silica	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1915 USGS Moira quadrangle1:62500
1917 USGS Moira quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1944 USGS Moira quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Brushton quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000872 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin County	All 86 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.