Amos Wood House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Amos Wood House is a historic home located near North Landing, Ellisburg in Jefferson County, New York. The house was built in 1826, and consists of three sections: the main block, ell, and service addition.”
Wikipedia article Amos Wood House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Wood, Amos, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 5571 Cty. Rt. 120, North Landing, 13650
When was it listed? January 2012
Category. building
Town. Ellisburg town
National Register reference number. 11001000 - 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

47 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Amos Wood House between 2004 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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	28
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Amos Wood House: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 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	Recorded
Rural Hill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rural Hill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rural Hill S & G Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Rural Hill S & G Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1893 USGS Sackets Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Sackets Harbor quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1895 USGS Sacketts Harbor quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1943 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:31680
1959 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Pulaski quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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
Cyrus Bates House	5.2 miles	2004
Pierrepont Manor Complex	5.8 miles	1977
Norton-Burnham House	6.4 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11001000 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 144 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.