Rockwells Mills Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

“Rockwells Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at Guilford in Chenango County, New York. The district includes 26 contributing buildings including approximately 20 houses with associated houses and a stone textile mill.”
Wikipedia article Rockwells Mills Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chenango County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. NY 8, Crandall Rd, Chenango, 13809
When was it listed? August 2010
Category. district
National Register reference number. 10000610 - 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Rockwells Mills Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	24
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 June 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rockwells Mills Historic District: 2 past producers. None of them 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
	Number 17 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Plant Number 17	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Chenango 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.

1915 USGS Unadilla quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Unadilla quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Guilford quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1945 USGS Guilford quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton 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
White Store Church and Evergreen Cemetery	2.4 miles	1995
North Guilford Cemetery	4.4 miles	2020
Guilford Center Cemetery	4.9 miles	2005
Guildford Center Presbyterian Church	4.9 miles	2004
Rockdale Community Church	5.1 miles	2005
Eaton Family Residence-Jewish Center of Norwich	5.6 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000610 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.