Jewell Family Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chenango County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 120 Furnace Rd., Guilford, 13780
When was it listed? January 2017
Category. building
Town. Guilford town
National Register reference number. 100000611 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Jewell Family Homestead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 113 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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	17
Debris and open burning	13
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
3 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 May 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 May 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 May 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
23 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jewell Family Homestead: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dubois S&G Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Chenango County

Storms near this property

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guilford, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2016	Flash Flood	Guilford	$50,000	Water was flowing across County Route 36 in several locations near Guilford and Guilford Center. Homes were flooded in the village along an unnamed stream.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Guilford	$50,000	no account filed
May 2004	Flash Flood	Guilford	$25,000	Several roadways flooded by intense thunderstorm rains.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	East Guilford	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines at Tall Pines Campground.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Guilford	$10,000	A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in many trees being blown down and some lines knocked over near Oxford.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Guilford	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees in Guilford.
July 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Guilford	$5,000	A brief tornado touch down occurred on Phillips-Odell Road. Convergent damage in the area included a flipped shed, some minor tree damage and a paddle boat blown approximately 50 yards from a lake. An eyewitness indicated that a rotating funnel of strong winds passed over the area at the time of the damage. The tornado initially touched down west of Phillips-Odell Road, then dissipated in a field east of the road.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Guilford	$2,000	Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused washouts along county routes 36 and 38.
June 2008	Hail	Guilford	-	Penny and nickel size hail were also reported.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Guilford	-	Emergency management reported trees and wires blown down by thunderstorm winds. Some hail was also reported.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Guilford	-	SKYWARN storm spotters reported tree limbs down in East Guilford.
August 2008	Hail	Guilford	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Guilford	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Guilford	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Guilford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chenango 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.

1915 USGS Unadilla quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Unadilla quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Guilford quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1945 USGS Guilford quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton 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
Guilford Center Cemetery	1.4 miles	2005
Guildford Center Presbyterian Church	1.4 miles	2004
North Guilford Cemetery	3.2 miles	2020
Rockdale Community Church	4.8 miles	2005
Oxford Village Historic District	5.7 miles	1985
Theodore Burr House	5.8 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100000611 in Record Group 79.
Chenango County	All 47 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.