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Photograph of Northville Historic District
Photograph by Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Northville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Northville Historic District is a national historic district located in the village of Northville in Fulton County, New York. The district is L-shaped, beginning at the southern end of South Main Street and running north to Bridge and Division Street.”

Wikipedia article Northville Historic District (New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Northville Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning17
Natural10
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism6
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2015Debris and open burning2.8 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Northville Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crushed Stone ProductsStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tyrell QuarryFeldspar, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northville, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997LightningNorthville1 hurtno account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindNorthville$50,000no account filed
October 1995Thunderstorm WindNorthville$8,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindNorthville$5,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindNorthville$4,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindNorthville-Two large trees were downed in Northville.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindNorthville-Several large trees were snapped and uprooted on Simpson Street.
January 2018FloodNorthville-Water was reported over Route 30 in spots between Wells and Northville due to an ice jam. The road was closed.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindNorthville-A tree was down on Ridge Road in the town of Northville. This was reported by the Fulton County Sheriffs Office.
July 2007HailNorthville-Quarter size hail was reported approximately 2 miles south of Northville.

Every storm recorded in Fulton County

Maps showing this location

11 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

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 PropertyDistance Listed
Sacandaga Railroad Station0.7 miles2003
Godfrey Shew House6.0 miles2006

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000191 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton CountyAll 25 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.
  • 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.