Warren-Benham House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Ontario County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 5680 Seneca Point Rd., Bristol Springs, 14424
When was it listed? November 2017
Category. building
Town. South Bristol town
National Register reference number. 100001805 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Warren-Benham House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 143 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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	22
Debris and open burning	18
Arson/incendiarism	9
Smoking	6
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
16 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Ontario County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Warren-Benham House: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bristol Springs Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Bristol Springs Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Heys Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Heys Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pine View Farm Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Trickey Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ontario County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1900 USGS Naples quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1903 USGS Naples quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1913 USGS Naples quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Middlesex quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1942 USGS Middlesex quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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
Wilder Cemetery	3.0 miles	2003
South Bristol Grange Hall 1107	3.2 miles	1997
Bristol Center Methodist Episcopal Church	5.3 miles	2022
Knights of the Maccabees Hall	5.5 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001805 in Record Group 79.
Ontario County	All 78 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.