West Winfield Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2026. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 2026 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. East and West Main St. North and South St. Carrier St. Academy St. Water St. Fenn St. Pleasant St., Winfield, 13491
When was it listed? January 2026
Category. district
Town. Winfield town
National Register reference number. 100012672 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of West Winfield Historic District between 1995 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	6
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
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
22 September 2013	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 July 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 June 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of West Winfield Historic District: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Millers Mill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Welch Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
West Winfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Herkimer 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.

1907 USGS Winfield quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS West Winfield quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1945 USGS West Winfield 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

5 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
Bonfoy-Barstow House	0.3 miles	2011
Meetinghouse Green Road Cemetery	2.9 miles	2013
Brace Farm	3.2 miles	2013
Rice-Dodge-Burgess Farm	4.2 miles	2015
Cedar Lake Methodist Episcopal Church	5.1 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012672 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.