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One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Van Slyke House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
The listing
- Address. 918 NY 5S, German Flatts, 13407
- When was it listed? November 2021
- Category. building
- Town. German Flatts town
- National Register reference number. 100007104 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
80 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Van Slyke House between 2003 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 18 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 | 36 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
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 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 25 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 23 September 2020 | Natural | 3.6 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 2 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 11 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 26 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Van Slyke House: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Falls Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Lyles Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Volo Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Maps showing this location
13 surveysUnited 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.
- 1900 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1939 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Herkimer quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Herkimer quadrangle1:31680
- 1949 USGS Herkimer quadrangle1:25000
- 1949 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fort Herkimer Church | 1.3 miles | 1972 |
 | US Post Office-Herkimer | 3.1 miles | 1989 |
| H.M. Quackenbush Factory | 3.1 miles | 2022 | |
 | Herkimer County Courthouse | 3.2 miles | 1972 |
 | Herkimer County Jail | 3.2 miles | 1972 |
 | Herkimer County Historical Society | 3.2 miles | 1972 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007104 in Record Group 79. |
| Herkimer County | All 74 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.