Norwich Pharmacal Company Warehouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chenango County · listed in 2018 · 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. 20 American Ave., Norwich, 13815
When was it listed? November 2018
Category. building
Town. Norwich town
National Register reference number. 100003111 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Norwich Pharmacal Company Warehouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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	27
Debris and open burning	21
Arson/incendiarism	11
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
3 September 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
10 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 1995	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
2 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
3 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Norwich Pharmacal Company Warehouse: 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Natural Gas. 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
Norwich Well No.1	Salt, Natural Gas	Prospect
Foley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Robert H. Stackhouse Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stack House Gravel Bed	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Chenango County

Storms near this property

57 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norwich, the town this property stands in, in 57 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 31 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 8 flash flood, 4 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 1996	Lightning	Norwich	1 hurt	no account filed
June 2025	Flash Flood	Norwich	$250,000	Numerous roads, bridges, and homes were flooded in the city. Ten people were stranded by flood waters.
May 1998	Tornado (F0)	North Norwich	$135,000	A supercell thunderstorm became tornadic briefly over North Norwich around 6:00 pm EDT. Trees were snapped off and twisted in all directions along the tornado's path. Several road signs were also blown over and a few homes sustained roof and siding damage.
September 2011	Flash Flood	Norwich	$83,000	Willard court flooded in Norwich. Forty people were evacuated.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$50,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	North Norwich	$30,000	no account filed
November 2006	Flash Flood	Norwich	$25,000	Numerous roads and homes flooded. Numerous road wash outs.
November 2006	Flash Flood	Norwich	$20,000	Numerous roads flooded and washed out. Numerous homes flooded.
June 2004	Lightning	Norwich	$20,000	Lightning struck a house on North Broad Street in the city of Norwich. The lightning started a fire in the attic. The fire smoldered for an hour before it was noticed and the fire departments responded. The fire and smoke damaged the second floor and attic. Water damage was mainly to the first floor. No one was injured due to the lightning.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$12,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over multiple trees in the cities of Preston, New Berlin, Oxford, and Guilford.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds blew numerous trees and wires down on Cortland Street with wires causing grass fire.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$10,000	Sporadic trees and wires were blown down across the city of Norwich. Trees and branches were also blown down along Route 23 East.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$10,000	Numerous trees were blown down in the city of Norwich.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$10,000	A thunderstorm briefly strengthened to severe limits just to the rear of a cell that had produced extensive damage across the county earlier in the evening. A few trees and power lines came down in the town of Norwich around 830 pm EDT.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$8,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over several trees in the area.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$5,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in trees being knocked over on wires.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	North Norwich	$5,000	Part of a roof was taken off a building on Saurkraut Lane. Multiple trees were blown down in the County Route 23A and 23 area.
June 2002	Flood	Norwich	$5,000	Heavy rain from a thunderstorm caused a street closing, the sewer to back up, and a man hole cover to lift in the city of Norwich.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$5,000	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$5,000	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$5,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$5,000	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires on Sheldon Street.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$3,000	Trees and wires were blown down in and around Norwich.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$2,500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on North Broad Street in Norwich.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Norwich	$2,000	Many streets are flooded in the City of Norwich.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$2,000	Trees and wires were blown down, with power outages from Norwich to Oxford.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$2,000	Trees and wires were blown down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$2,000	Trees and wires were blown down in Norwich.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Norwich	$2,000	Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused washouts along county route 33.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a roadway.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$1,000	A few trees and wires were blown down.
June 2002	Lightning	Norwich	$1,000	Lightning struck a house in the city of Norwich causing a water pipe to burst.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	$1,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	North Norwich	-	A tree was blown down on State Route 12.
August 2008	Hail	North Norwich	-	Penney size hail was also reported near this location.
May 2007	Hail	North Norwich	-	Golf ball size hail covered the ground and was approximately two inches deep in one area.
September 2007	Hail	Norwich	-	A severe thunderstorm produced penny size hail in Norwich.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	-	Numerous trees were knocked down.
May 2000	Lightning	Norwich	-	A lightning strike caused an explosion at a gas station. Minor damage was reported.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	-	Trees and wires were blown down by thunderstorm winds. Falling trees produced significant damage to homes and businesses. Kiwanis Park also sustained damaged.
May 2000	Flash Flood	Norwich	-	Numerous roads were closed due to flooding following heavy thunderstorm rains.
May 2000	Flash Flood	North Norwich	-	Numerous roads were closed due to flooding following heavy thunderstorm rains.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwich	-	Law enforcement officers reported trees and wired down as well as damage to homes in Norwich. Numerous trees were also blown down in South New Berlin.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	North Norwich	-	Tree down on Route 12.
August 2023	Hail	Norwich	-	no account filed
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	North Norwich	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Norwich	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Norwich	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Norwich	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	North Norwich	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Norwich	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	North Norwich	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Norwich	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Norwich	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chenango 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.

1903 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:31680
1944 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1944 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich 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
US Post Office-Norwich	under 500 feet	1989
Chenango County Courthouse District	0.1 miles	1975
Methodist-Episcopal Church of Norwich	0.3 miles	2003
Emmanuel Episcopal Church Complex	0.3 miles	2009
North Broad Street Historic District	0.5 miles	1978
Eaton Family Residence-Jewish Center of Norwich	5.5 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003111 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.