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One of 93 National Register listings published here for Oswego County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Oswego and Syracuse Railroad Freight House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 20-24 W. Utica St., Oswego, 13126
- When was it listed? November 2017
- Category. building
- City. Oswego city
- National Register reference number. 100001806 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
137 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Oswego and Syracuse Railroad Freight House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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 | 87 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 25 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oswego and Syracuse Railroad Freight House: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erie Street Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Erie Street Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this property
33 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oswego, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 24 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $75,000 | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $35,000 | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $35,000 | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $25,000 | Multiple trees were downed by thunderstorm winds on the SUNY Oswego campus. |
| November 2005 | Lightning | Oswego | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $20,000 | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $15,000 | A SKYWARN spotter reported trees and wires down. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $15,000 | A trained spotter reported trees and wires down in Oswego. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Oswego | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $12,000 | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $10,000 | A trained spotter reported numerous trees downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Oswego | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Oswego | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $8,000 | Thunderstorm wind downed a light post on SUNY Oswego campus. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Oswego | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Oswego | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $2,000 | Trees and wires downed in the City of Oswego. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $2,000 | Multiple trees were downed on the lakeshore of the SUNY Oswego Campus. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $2,000 | Trees and wires were downed. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | $1,000 | Trees were reported down. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswego | - | Buoy station osgn6 Oswego. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Oswego | - | A few roads closed in Oswego due to Flash Flooding. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Oswego | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Oswego | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited 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 Oswego quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
- 1943 USGS Oswego West quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Oswego West quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Oswego quadrangle1:62500 - 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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Kingsford Historic District | 0.1 miles | 2014 |
 | Oswego Armory | 0.1 miles | 1988 |
| U.S. Customhouse | 0.2 miles | 1976 | |
| Kingsford House | 0.2 miles | 1997 | |
| Standard Yarn Company Building | 0.2 miles | 2008 | |
 | Oswego City Hall | 0.2 miles | 1973 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001806 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.