Jefferson Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie County · listed in 2025 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Creamery Street, Main Street, Peck Street and Summit Street, Jefferson, 12093
When was it listed? May 2025
Category. district
Town. Jefferson town
National Register reference number. 100011783 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

68 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Jefferson Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 3 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	30
Natural	10
Debris and open burning	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	3

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 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 June 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this property

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jefferson, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	$22,000	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Jefferson	$5,000	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	$5,000	no account filed
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	$4,000	no account filed
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	$1,000	A tree was downed onto a road.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Local law enforcement reported a large tree down on North Harpersfield Rd west of Jefferson which lead to closure of the road.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Law enforcement reported a large tree down near the intersection of Route 10 and Route 43.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Trees and wires were downed in the Town of Jefferson including along West Kill Road.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	A tree was downed on Route 10 in the town of Jefferson.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Wires were downed. Time estimated by radar.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Trees and wires were reported down from thunderstorm winds.
May 2016	Flash Flood	Jefferson	-	Rebel Ridge Road in Eminence was closed due to flooding from repeated rounds of thunderstorm heavy rainfall.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Jefferson due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Trees and wires were downed in Jefferson as a result of thunderstorm winds.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Trees and wires were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Jefferson.
May 2013	Tornado (EF1)	Jefferson	-	A National Weather Service storm survey determined that a tornado touched down along the side of a mountain ridge. Dozens of softwood and hardwood trees were sheared off or toppled in different directions. The tornado was an on the ground for nearly 1.6 miles, but due to the rural and mountainous location, only did damage to trees.
June 2011	Hail	Jefferson	-	Penny size hail (measured) was reported during a thunderstorm in Jefferson.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Jefferson due to strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2008	Hail	Jefferson	-	Nickel size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Jefferson.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Multiple trees were reported down in Jefferson as a result of strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Jefferson due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Trees were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds in Jefferson.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Trees were blown down and power lines were knocked down.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Trees blown down.
May 2004	Hail	Jefferson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schoharie County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1904 USGS Hobart quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1945 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1946 USGS Stamford 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 Pepacton Reservoir 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
First Presbyterian Church of Jefferson	0.2 miles	2012
Parker 13-Sided Barn	0.4 miles	1984
Stewart House and Howard-Stewart Family Cemetery	2.8 miles	2012
Forks in the Road Schoolhouse	5.4 miles	2005
South Gilboa Railroad Station	5.6 miles	2000
Bute-Warner-Truax Farm	6.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011783 in Record Group 79.
Schoharie County	All 52 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.