Derrick Boat No. 8

Built in 1927. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Derrick Boat No. 8, also known as DB 8, is a historic floating derrick located at Oswego, Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1927, and it is one of the few surviving steam-powered floating derricks to have worked on the New York State Barge Canal.”
Wikipedia article Derrick Boat No. 8, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Oswego County · listed in 2015 · category: Structure · built in 1927.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 W. 1st St., Oswego, 13126
When was it listed? January 2015
Category. structure
City. Oswego city
When was it built? 1927
National Register reference number. 14001129 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

130 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Derrick Boat No. 8 between 2000 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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	82
Arson/incendiarism	20
Debris and open burning	15
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	4
Natural	3

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
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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 Derrick Boat No. 8: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Erie Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Erie Street Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this property

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oswego, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 24 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$75,000	no account filed
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$35,000	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$35,000	no account filed
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$25,000	Multiple trees were downed by thunderstorm winds on the SUNY Oswego campus.
November 2005	Lightning	Oswego	$25,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$25,000	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$20,000	no account filed
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$15,000	A SKYWARN spotter reported trees and wires down.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$15,000	A trained spotter reported trees and wires down in Oswego.
March 2000	Hail	Oswego	$15,000	no account filed
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$12,000	no account filed
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$10,000	A trained spotter reported numerous trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$10,000	Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down.
May 2014	Hail	Oswego	$10,000	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Oswego	$10,000	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$10,000	no account filed
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$10,000	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$10,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$10,000	no account filed
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$8,000	Thunderstorm wind downed a light post on SUNY Oswego campus.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$5,000	no account filed
September 2013	Hail	Oswego	$5,000	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Oswego	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$5,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$2,000	Trees and wires downed in the City of Oswego.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$2,000	Multiple trees were downed on the lakeshore of the SUNY Oswego Campus.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	$1,000	Trees were reported down.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego	-	Buoy station osgn6 Oswego.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Oswego	-	A few roads closed in Oswego due to Flash Flooding.
June 2016	Hail	Oswego	-	no account filed
September 2013	Hail	Oswego	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oswego County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

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.

1900 USGS Oswego quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1943 USGS Oswego West quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Oswego West quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Oswego quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Montcalm Park Historic District	0.3 miles	2001
Walton and Willett Stone Store	0.3 miles	1976
Oswego Yacht Club	0.3 miles	2010
George B. Sloan Estate	0.4 miles	1988
Franklin Square Historic District	0.4 miles	1982
Woodruff Block	0.4 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14001129 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oswego County	All 93 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.