Photograph of The Tepee — Photograph by NYroadside, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Tepee, The

Built in 1954. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“The Tepee is a historic commercial building and roadside attraction located near Cherry Valley in Otsego County, New York, United States. It was built in 1954, and is a wood-frame structure sheathed in galvanized steel on a concrete foundation.”
Wikipedia article The Tepee, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 2011 · category: Building · built in 1954.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 7632 US 20, Cherry Valley, 13320
When was it listed? August 2011
Category. building
Town. Cherry Valley town
When was it built? 1954
National Register reference number. 11000543 - 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

50 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Tepee, The between 1999 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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	16
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
5 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherry Valley, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Cherry Valley	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cherry Valley	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cherry Valley	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1898 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Sprout Brook quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1945 USGS Sprout Brook quadrangle1:31680
1947 USGS Sprout Brook quadrangle1:25000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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
Cherry Valley Village Historic District	3.5 miles	1988
Roseboom Historic District	6.6 miles	1998
East Springfield Union School	6.6 miles	1996
Women's Community Club of South Valley	7.3 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000543 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.