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Brace Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

“Brace Farm, also known as Pleasant Hill Stock Farm, is a historic home and farm located at Meetinghouse Green in Herkimer County, New York. The Brace farmhouse was built in 1861, and consists of a two-story, three-bay, main block and 1 1/2-story rear ell with Italianate style design elements.”

Wikipedia article Brace Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 2013 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 428 Brace Rd., Meetinghouse Green, 13491
  • When was it listed? June 2013
  • Category. district
  • Town. Winfield town
  • National Register reference number. 13000356 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

39 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Brace Farm between 2002 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 July 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 June 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 May 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Herkimer 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 Brace Farm: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Litchfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Litchfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Millers Mill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
West Winfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Meetinghouse Green Road Cemetery0.5 miles2013
Cedar Lake Methodist Episcopal Church2.2 miles2020
Rice-Dodge-Burgess Farm2.7 miles2015
Bonfoy-Barstow House2.9 miles2011
West Winfield Historic District3.2 miles2026
Remington House6.0 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000356 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Herkimer CountyAll 74 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.