Sherwood Equal Rights Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Sherwood Equal Rights Historic District is a national historic district located at Sherwood in Cayuga County, New York. The district consists of 29 properties containing 27 contributing primary buildings, one contributing site (cemetery), three contributing carriage houses and one non-contributing building in the historic core of the hamlet of Sherwood.”
Wikipedia article Sherwood Equal Rights Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Cayuga County · listed in 2008 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Sherwood Rd. & NY 34B, Sherwood, 13026
When was it listed? February 2008
Category. district
Also known as. Freedom Trail, Abolitionism, and African American Life in Central New York MPS
Town. Scipio town
National Register reference number. 08000096 - 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

51 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Sherwood Equal Rights Historic District between 2005 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 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	20
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6

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
27 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
2 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
18 August 2020	Natural	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
12 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Cayuga 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 Sherwood Equal Rights Historic District: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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	Recorded
Aurora Well	Salt	Past Producer
Town of Scipio Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Town of Scipio Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga 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.

1899 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1943 USGS Scipio quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Scipio Center quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Auburn 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
Howland Cobblestone Store	under 500 feet	1994
Slocum and Hannah Howland House	0.1 miles	2006
Job and Deborah Otis House	0.3 miles	2008
Augustus Howland House	1.3 miles	2008
North Street Friends Meetinghouse	1.5 miles	2005
Jethro Wood House	1.8 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000096 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cayuga County	All 71 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.