Photograph of Thendara — Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Thendara Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1912.

From the record

“Thendara is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Herkimer County, New York, United States. Thendara is located in the Adirondack Park, in the southern part of the town of Webb, west of Old Forge on Route 28.”
Wikipedia article Thendara, New York, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly bounded by Birch St and Forge St, Old Forge, 13420
When was it listed? November 2010
Category. district
Town. Webb town
National Register reference number. 10000897 - 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

10 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Thendara Historic District between 2012 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	1
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	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
15 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	WOODHULL LAKE FIRE
4 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 July 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	WOODHULL ISLAND FIRE
25 June 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	ADIRONDACK LEAGUE
25 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
25 June 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 May 2013	Other causes	2.2 acres	New York Forest Rangers	TAMARACK LAKE RD FIRE
4 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this property

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Forge, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 23 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2002	Flash Flood	Old Forge	$10,000	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	$8,000	no account filed
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	$5,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	$5,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	$5,000	no account filed
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	$2,000	no account filed
March 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	$1,000	Trees and wires were downed, resulting in power outages in the town of Old Forge.
July 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Old Forge	-	A National Weather Service storm survey concluded a tornado touched down in northern Herkimer County. Hi-resolution satellite data showed widespread tree damage consistent with an EF1 tornado beginning east of Little Moose Lake and continuing northeastward to the southwestern corner of Limekiln Lake. Estimated peak winds were 100 mph. The path length was 4.1 miles with a path width of 150 yards.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	Trees and wires were downed along Route 28 between Old Forge and Eagle Bay.
February 2022	Flood	Old Forge	-	All lanes were blocked along Route 28 from Big Moose Road in Eagle Bay to Hollywood Road near Old Forge due to flooding.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down on power and cable lines on Fletcher Road.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	A tree was downed on South Shore Road.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	Trees and wires were downed in the Town of Old Forge. All lanes on Route 28 were blocked between Crosby Road and Adams Street.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	A tree was downed onto wires on Beechvue Point.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	A tree was downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	Two trees were reported down in addition to wires.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	Trees and wires were down in Old Forge as a result of thunderstorm winds.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	A tree was reported down on South Shore Road about 5 miles east of Old Forge as a result of thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Old Forge due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	Trees and wires were reported down near Old Forge due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	Trees and power lines were reported down near Old Forge due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	An Emergency Manager reported that trees were blown down in Old Forge.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	Trees down across Peach tree Road.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	Hundreds of trees and power poles were blown down. Roads were impassable. Damage is attributable to both severe thunderstorms and non thunderstorm wind.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	Trees and power lines down.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Forge	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Old Forge	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Herkimer County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1912 USGS Mc Keever quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Mc Keever quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Thendara quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Goodsell House	3.7 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000897 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.