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Moser Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1911.

From the record

“Moser Farm, also known as The Mennonite Heritage Farm or Adirondack Mennonite Heritage Farm, is a historic farm complex located near Kirschnerville in Lewis County, New York. The complex consists of Moser family dwelling and a compact grouping of a granary and two English barns.”

Wikipedia article Moser Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lewis 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

  • Address. 8778 Erie Canal Rd, Kirschnerville, 13327
  • When was it listed? July 2010
  • Category. building
  • Town. New Bremen town
  • National Register reference number. 10000516 - 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

44 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Moser Farm between 1995 and 2020, burning about 38 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/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural6
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 August 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPARADISE DRIVE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Moser Farm: 5 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Croghan PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Croghan PlantGranitePast ProducerGranite
KirschnervilleMolybdenumOccurrenceMolybdenite
Croghan Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lehman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lyndaker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
New Bremen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this property

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirschnerville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindKirschnerville$35,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000516 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis CountyAll 50 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.