Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.
From the record
“Keith and Branch Ford Motors Factory and Showroom, also known as The Old Seed Store, is a historic factory and car dealership building located at Upper Jay, Essex County, New York. It was built about 1920, and is a three-story, six bay by four bay, stuccoed frame building.”
Wikipedia article Keith and Branch Ford Motors Factory and Showroom, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 13000329 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1896 to 1999
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18961999
Fires near this property
114 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Keith and Branch Ford Motors Factory and Showroom
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 683 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 12 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
46
Natural
16
Debris and open burning
12
Arson/incendiarism
12
Recreation and ceremony
11
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Smoking
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
17 workings within 5 miles of Keith and Branch Ford Motors Factory and Showroom: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica, Marble, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Upper Jay, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 flash flood.
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.
An ice jam moved down the East Branch of the Ausable River from Keene through Ausable Forks. The first report of flooding was from a jam flooding Route 9N and Trumbulls Corners Road near Upper Jay at 1433 EST. The jam moved downstream, and flooded Route 9N near Sticknee Bridge between the villages of Ausable Forks and Jay at 1735 EST. At 1850 EST reports were received of evacuations of at least 25 homes underway in the Jersey area of Ausable Forks village due to the ice jam. By 2230 EST the jam had moved on downstream on the Ausable River.
An ice jam formed on the East Branch of the Ausable River between Keene and Jay, and moved downstream. Evacuations were necessary in Jay. The jam moved downstream through Ausable Forks and caused the East Branch Ausable River to spike above flood stage briefly.
An ice jam on the East Branch of the Ausable River moved downstream through Upper Jay, Jay, and Ausable Forks. Route 9N was closed between Jay and Upper Jay by high water. The jam moved downstream into the main stem of the Ausable River at Ausable Forks where flood impacts ended.
Runoff from prolonged heavy rainfall of one to two inches in the East Branch Ausable River basin caused minor flooding. The river gage at Ausable Forks to exceed flood stage at 2:40 AM EST on May 4, and crested at a stage of 7.15 feet on May 4 at 04:30 AM EsT.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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