Lemuel F. Vibber House

Built in 1810 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Vibber House is a historic home located east of the Village of Richfield Springs, New York by Federal Corners, New York. The main block of the Vibber House is a side-gabled, two-story, five-bay building on a high stone foundation enclosing a full-height basement built in the Federal style.”
Wikipedia article Lemuel F. Vibber House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 2016 · category: Building · built in 1810, Federal architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Vibber, Lemuel F., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 302 Butternut Rd., Richfield, 13439
When was it listed? June 2016
Category. building
Town. Richfield town
When was it built? 1810
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 16000393 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

47 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Lemuel F. Vibber House between 1999 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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
Arson/incendiarism	18
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
3 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 1999	Smoking	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
15 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 June 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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.

1903 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1945 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam 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
East Main Street Historic District	0.7 miles	1995
Sunnyside	0.7 miles	1988
US Post Office-Richfield Springs	1.0 miles	1989
West Main Street-West James Street Historic District	1.1 miles	1994
Church Street Historic District	1.1 miles	1997
Tunnicliff-Jordan House	1.3 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000393 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.