Alasa Farms

Built in 1833. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Alasa Farms, also known as the Sodus Bay Shaker Tract and Sodus Bay Phalanx, is a historic farm complex located near the hamlet of Alton in Wayne County, New York. The farm complex was originally built and occupied by the Sodus Bay Shakers, an official branch of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, from 1826 to 1838.”
Wikipedia article Alasa Farms, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2009 · category: District · built in 1833.

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

The listing

Address. 6450 Shaker Rd., Alton, 14516
When was it listed? October 2009
Category. district
Town. Sodus town
When was it built? 1833
National Register reference number. 09000835 - 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

195 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Alasa Farms between 2000 and 2020, burning about 181 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 44 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	114
Arson/incendiarism	44
Debris and open burning	13
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Other causes	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 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Alasa Farms: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Salmon Creek	Iron	Past Producer
Sodus Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Sodus Quarry and Plant	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alton, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2014: 2 hail, 1 heavy snow. 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
January 1999	Heavy Snow	Alton	$50,000	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Alton	$25,000	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Alton	$10,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1902 USGS Clyde quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1943 USGS Rose quadrangle1:31680
1953 USGS Clyde quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Rose quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
LOTUS (schooner)	2.2 miles	1990
Customs House	2.2 miles	1980
Walling Cobblestone Tavern	2.3 miles	1994
Wallington Cobblestone Schoolhouse District No. 8	2.3 miles	1994
Sodus Point Lighthouse	2.5 miles	1976
Red Brick Church	3.3 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000835 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 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.
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.