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Town-Hollister Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Town-Hollister Farm is a historic home and farm complex located on the western side of the hamlet of North Granville in Washington County, New York. The property is of both historical and architectural significance.”

Wikipedia article Town-Hollister Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Washington 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. Town--Hollister Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. NY 22, North Granville, 12832
  • When was it listed? June 2008
  • Category. building
  • Town. Granville town
  • National Register reference number. 08000516 - 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

1893 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Town-Hollister Farm, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet covering Town-Hollister Farm, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

110 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Town-Hollister Farm between 1994 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined52
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2015Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersGUILDER HOLLOW FIRE
30 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Town-Hollister Farm: 35 past producers, 14 producers, 1 occurrence. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Smiths Basin QuarriesLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1882, 1925
Mccullen Slate Quarry No. 1 & 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Penrhyn Red QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Penryhn Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Red QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shurbert QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Williams Bros. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ainsworth QuarrySlate, DimensionPast Producer1874, 1892
Church Road QuarrySlate, DimensionPast ProducerMetamorphic
Church Road QuarrySlate, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Granville, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997LightningNorth Granville$6,000Lightning struck a house and brought down several wires at North Granville in Washington County.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindNorth Granville-Trees and wires downed in North Granville.

Every storm recorded in Washington County

Maps showing this location

14 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 08000516 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 52 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.
  • 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.