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Photograph of Stage Coach Inn
Photograph by Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stage Coach Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Stage Coach Inn, also known as Royal Johnson House, is a historic inn located at Lapeer in Cortland County, New York. It was built about 1830 and is a two-story, rectangular five bay center entrance frame building.”

Wikipedia article Stage Coach Inn (Lapeer, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Cortland County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2548 Clarks Corners Rd., Lapeer, 13803
  • When was it listed? December 2009
  • Category. building
  • Town. Lapeer town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 09001080 - 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

1903 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Stage Coach Inn, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet covering Stage Coach Inn, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

47 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Stage Coach Inn between 2003 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Cortland County

Storms near this property

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lapeer, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
May 2001LightningLapeer3 hurtLightning struck a barn where people were taking shelter from a thunderstorm. 3 people were injured as the lightning moved through an electrical box in the barn. One victim was reported to be in critical condition.
December 2023Flash FloodLapeer$30,000Jennings Creek is out of bank and flooding nearby properties. There is also extensive yard and basement flooding in the area.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindLapeer$10,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindLapeer-Trees and wires were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
June 1994HailLapeer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cortland County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

Listed places nearby

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Peck Memorial Library3.4 miles1992
Tarbell Building3.4 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09001080 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cortland CountyAll 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.