White House, The

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“The White House, also known as the James Butterfield House, is a historic home located at Hartwick in Otsego County, New York. It was built about 1792 in the Federal style, and remodeled about 1940 with Colonial Revival style elements.”
Wikipedia article The White House (Hartwick, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 108 White House Rd., Hartwick, 13348
When was it listed? September 2012
Category. building
Town. Hartwick town
National Register reference number. 12000598 - 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

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of White House, The between 1997 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
14 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 May 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 May 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartwick, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 hail. 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
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartwick	$15,000	The severe thunderstorm that prouduced wind damage earlier in Seneca and Chenango counties continued to plow eastward through Otsego county. The cell maintained its severe intensity as it did so. Shortly before and around 200 pm, numerous trees and utility poles were downed in the towns of Hartwick and Hyde Park. The storm then turned towards the southeast and inflicted more damage in South Worcester where large trees were uprooted and a roof was partially torn off.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartwick	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartwick	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds blew trees and wires down.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartwick	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartwick	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	South Hartwick	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartwick	$4,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	South Hartwick	$2,500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on Arnold Lake Road.
June 2025	Flash Flood	South Hartwick	$2,000	Water and debris was reported across the road south of the Town of Hartwick.
December 2023	Flash Flood	Hartwick	$2,000	Roads are reported to be flooding near Piermott Lane.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartwick	$1,000	Trees were blown down in Hartwick.
August 2023	Flash Flood	Hartwick	-	Parking lots were flooded around the village of Hartwick.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartwick	-	Newspaper reports indicate that several small trees and limbs fell down during a thunderstorm. Some also brought down power lines and caused power outages.
May 2000	Flash Flood	Hartwick	-	Numerous roads closed due to flooding following heavy thunderstorm rains. Dan Miller Road left with a 100 foot deep ravine in it.
June 2008	Hail	Hartwick	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Hartwick	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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.

1910 USGS Hartwick quadrangle1:62500
1912 USGS Hartwick quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1943 USGS Hartwick quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1945 USGS Hartwick 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

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
Hartwick Historic District	1.9 miles	2013
Old Hartwick Village Cemetery	2.7 miles	2013
Mathewson-Bice Farmhouse and Mathewson Family Cemetery	3.9 miles	2013
House at 120 Balcom Road	3.9 miles	2024
Fly Creek Grange No. 844	4.2 miles	2004
Chapin Memorial Church	4.3 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000598 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.