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Herkimer House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Herkimer Home State Historic Site is a historic house museum in Herkimer County, New York, United States. Herkimer Home is in the north part of the Town of Danube, south of the Mohawk River.”
Wikipedia article Herkimer Home State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Near NY 5 S., Danube, 13365
When was it listed? February 1971
Category. building
Town. Danube town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 71000539 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Herkimer House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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	53
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	6
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	LITTLE FALLS
28 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not 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 Herkimer House: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Little Falls Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
St. Johnsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Moyer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Volo Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1900 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1939 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:31680
1949 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:25000
1949 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gloversville 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
Italian Community Bake Oven	1.3 miles	2006
Snells Bush Church and Cemetery	2.2 miles	2004
Emmanuel Episcopal Church	2.4 miles	2009
Little Falls City Hall	2.4 miles	2011
South Ann Street-Mill Street Historic District	2.5 miles	2008
Herkimer County Trust Company Building	2.5 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000539 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Herkimer County	All 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.