Photograph of The Mexico Stone Store — Photograph by Jj21760, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mexico Stone Store, The

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“The Mexico Stone Store, also known as The Little Stone House, is a historic commercial building located at Mexico in Oswego County, New York. It was built as late as the 1830s and is a one-story, stone building with a gable roof.”
Wikipedia article The Mexico Stone Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Oswego County · listed in 2010 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3201 Main St., Mexico, 13114
When was it listed? March 2010
Category. building
Also known as. Mexico MPS
Town. Mexico town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 10000103 - 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

102 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Mexico Stone Store, The between 2001 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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	58
Arson/incendiarism	25
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	7
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	1
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
7 September 2007	Smoking	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Smoking	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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 Mexico Stone Store, The: 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
	B.R. Dewitt, Inc. Gp-4 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this property

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mexico, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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 1993	Tornado (F0)	Mexico	$50,000	An isolated severe thunderstorm moved along the northeast portion of Oswego County. The initial damage from the storm, determined to be caused by strong thunderstorm winds, occurred in Texas where a large tree was blown onto a house. The resident there also reported golfball-size hail at the time. The thunderstorm then spawned a weak tornado which caused only tree damage for a path of 1 to 1.5 miles.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree which damaged a truck.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$15,000	Trained spotters reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$10,000	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$10,000	no account filed
September 2010	Flood	Mexico	$8,000	no account filed
September 2010	Flood	Mexico	$8,000	no account filed
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$8,000	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$8,000	no account filed
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$2,000	Trees and wires downed in the Town of Mexico.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$2,000	Trees and wires downed on Pumphouse Rd.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$2,000	Tree and wires downed.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$2,000	Trees and wires downed in the Town of Mexico.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$1,000	Tree and wires down on a driveway.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$1,000	Trees were reported down.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Mexico	$1,000	Tree and wires were reported down on Smithers Rd.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Mexico	-	Ames Street is closed due to flooding.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Mexico	-	County Route 41 in Mexico is closed due to flooding.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Mexico	-	State Route 104 closed in Mexico between Emery Road and Standpipe Road due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Oswego County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1905 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:24000 - 2 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
Starr Clark Tin Shop	0.2 miles	2001
Peter Chandler House	0.2 miles	1991
Phineas Davis Farmstead	0.2 miles	1991
Mexico Village Historic District	0.3 miles	1991
Fowler-Loomis House	0.3 miles	1991
Timothy Skinner House	0.3 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000103 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oswego County	All 93 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.