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One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
House at 120 Balcom Road
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 120 Balcom Road, Mount Vernon, 13810
- When was it listed? July 2024
- Category. building
- Town. New Lisbon town
- National Register reference number. 100010480 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
40 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of House at 120 Balcom Road between 1995 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 19 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 15 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 July 1999 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 17 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 16 June 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of House at 120 Balcom Road: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schmidts Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited 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.
- 1910 USGS Hartwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Hartwick quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Hartwick quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1945 USGS Hartwick quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Norwich 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Hartwick Village Cemetery | 1.4 miles | 2013 | |
 | Hartwick Historic District | 2.4 miles | 2013 |
| White House, The | 3.9 miles | 2012 | |
| Lunn-Musser Octagon Barn | 3.9 miles | 1984 | |
| Bassett Family House | 4.1 miles | 2004 | |
 | Kenyon Residences | 4.1 miles | 2004 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010480 in Record Group 79. |
| Otsego County | All 79 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.