Town Line Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Town Line Bridge, also known as Taylor Lenticular Truss Bridge, was a historic bridge located at Taylor in Cortland County, New York. It was constructed in 1888 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company of East Berlin, Connecticut.”
Wikipedia article Town Line Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Cortland County · listed in 2008 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Town Line Rd., Taylor, 13040
When was it listed? May 2008
Category. structure
Town. Taylor town
Architect. Berlin Iron Bridge Co.
National Register reference number. 08000470 - 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

47 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Town Line Bridge between 1995 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Fireworks	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
14 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
27 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
20 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
9 July 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 May 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Cortland County

Storms near this property

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylor, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2015	Flash Flood	Taylor	$75,000	Flooding covered several roads in the area, including the villages of East Freetown, Taylor and Cincinnatus.
June 1998	Hail	Taylor	$15,000	A thunderstorm that produced wind damage and large hail across western sections of the county earlier in the evening reintensified to severe limits once again further east. Trees and power lines were downed in the town of Taylor and dime sized hail was reported as well.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylor	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees near Union Valley Road.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylor	$8,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylor	$5,000	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylor	$1,000	Trees down

Every storm recorded in Cortland County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1904 USGS Pitcher quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Cincinnatus quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1944 USGS Cincinnatus quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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
Cincinnatus Historic District	2.2 miles	1984
Taylor Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Taylor District #3 School	4.0 miles	2010
Union Valley Congregational Church	4.5 miles	2002
Hatheway Homestead	7.8 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000470 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cortland County	All 31 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.