Cottages at Central Point

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Cottages at Central Point are a set of four historic cottages located on the east shore of Keuka Lake in Wayne in Steuben County, New York. They were built in the late 1880s, and are two-story, wood-frame cottages with steep gable roofs and wide porches.”
Wikipedia article Cottages at Central Point, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Steuben County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

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 4 buildingss, 2 objectss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 14681-14697 Keuka Village Rd., Wayne
When was it listed? October 2011
Category. building
Town. Wayne town
National Register reference number. 11000754 - 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

79 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Cottages at Central Point between 1994 and 2020, burning about 230 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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	41
Debris and open burning	21
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 August 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
6 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 July 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Cottages at Central Point: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Natural Gas. 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	Recorded
Best No.2 Well	Salt, Natural Gas	Past Producer
Camp Erie Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Camp Erie Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pulteney Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pulteney Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sleve Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Steuben County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1903 USGS Penn Yan quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Keuka Park quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Keuka Lake quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

2 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
	Western New York Wine Company	4.2 miles	2014
	Gold Seal Winery	4.8 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000754 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Steuben County	All 63 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.