Chittenango Pottery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Chittenango Pottery is a historic pottery located at Chittenango, Madison County, New York. The site includes two large brick buildings that were constructed in 1898-1899 for the Chittenango Pottery Company.”
Wikipedia article Chittenango Pottery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Madison 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 11-13 Pottery St., Chittenango, 13037
When was it listed? December 2009
Category. building
Town. Sullivan town
National Register reference number. 09001083 - 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

84 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Chittenango Pottery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 176 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 15 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	48
Arson/incendiarism	15
Natural	9
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
30 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Chittenango Pottery: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
Button & Worlock Quarries	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Chittenango Well	Salt	Past Producer
Crouse Gravel Bed	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kinsella Pit and Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Kinsella Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Kinsella Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chittenango, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 2004	Flash Flood	Chittenango	$500,000	Heavy rain caused flash flooding. Numerous roads were floods and creeks were over their banks. Parts of the city of Oneida were flooded with streets impassable. Numerous homes had flooded basements. Power was shut off to reduce the risk of electrical fire until the basements got pumped out by the fire department. Rainfall was 3 to 5 inches.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Chittenango	$50,000	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Chittenango	$8,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Chittenango	$5,000	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chittenango	$3,500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a car with wires involved. No injuries were reported.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	North Chittenango	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires onto a house.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Chittenango	$500	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Chittenango	-	Some minor street flooding was also reported along with the hail due to heavy rain.
May 2000	Lightning	Chittenango	-	A lightning strike set a house on fire.
June 2000	Hail	Chittenango	-	Reports of trees down and 1 inch diameter hail were received from the media and trained spotters in Chittenango. Localized street flooding was also reported.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Chittenango	-	Numerous trees and wires down. Also reported in Cazenovia.
May 2000	Hail	Chittenango	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Chittenango	-	no account filed
December 1996	Flash Flood	Chittenango	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1895 USGS Chittenango quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Chittenango quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Chittenango quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1946 USGS Canastota quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Canastota quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Utica quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
Chittenango Landing Dry Dock Complex	0.3 miles	1992
St. Paul's Church	1.2 miles	1996
House at 107 Stroud Street	5.5 miles	1986
Judge Nathan S. Roberts House	5.5 miles	1986
House at 233 James Street	5.6 miles	1986
Canastota Public Library	5.8 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09001083 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 83 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.