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Photograph of John Graves Cobblestone Farmhouse
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John Graves Cobblestone Farmhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“John Graves Cobblestone Farmhouse is an American historic home located at Junius in Seneca County, New York. It is a late Federal style, two-story, three-bay wide side hall structure, with a one-story frame wing.”

Wikipedia article John Graves Cobblestone Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Seneca County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Graves, John, Cobblestone Farmhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1370 NY 318, Junius, 13165
  • When was it listed? February 2008
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Cobblestone Architecture of New York State MPS
  • Town. Junius town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 08000107 - 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

90 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of John Graves Cobblestone Farmhouse between 2000 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined48
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking1

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Seneca County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of John Graves Cobblestone Farmhouse: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Devils Gulch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Five Points PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Five Points PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Town of Waterloo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Waterloo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Seneca County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000107 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Seneca CountyAll 40 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.