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Erskine L. Seeley House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Seeley House is a historic home located at Stamford in Delaware County, New York. It was built about 1890 and is a balloon frame house clad in wood clapboard siding on a bluestone foundation.”

Wikipedia article Erskine L. Seeley House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Seeley, Erskine L., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 46 Main St, Stamford, 12167
  • When was it listed? August 2010
  • Category. building
  • Town. Stamford town
  • National Register reference number. 10000593 - 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

57 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Erskine L. Seeley House between 1999 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 11 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/undetermined21
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 July 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 June 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 June 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 Erskine L. Seeley House: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Town of Harpersfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stamford, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2020Thunderstorm WindStamford$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees on powerlines along Railroad Avenue.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindStamford$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and powerlines on Terry Road.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindStamford$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees across Highway 10.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindStamford$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
June 2025Flash FloodStamford$2,000Flooding was occurring near the intersection of Odell Lake Road and State Route 23.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindStamford$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindStamford-Trees and wires were blown down.
June 2005HailStamford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

Listed places nearby

5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Churchill Park Historic District0.7 miles1980
Hobart Masonic Hall3.7 miles2001
St. Peter's Episcopal Church Complex4.0 miles1998
North Harpersfield Churches5.9 miles2024
North Harpersfield Churches5.9 miles2024

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000593 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware CountyAll 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.
  • 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.