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Photograph of Hanford Mill
Photograph by Thomas L. Hayward, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hanford Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.

From the record

“Hanford Mills Museum, also known as Kelso Mill, is a historic grist mill and sawmill and national historic district located at East Meredith, New York in Delaware County, New York. The district contains nine contributing buildings and three contributing structures.”

Wikipedia article Hanford Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 1973 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. On CR 12, East Meredith, 12758
  • When was it listed? March 1973
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 73001178 - 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

81 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Hanford Mill between 1998 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined44
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural7
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Meredith, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013Thunderstorm WindEast Meredith$20,000Thunderstorm winds blew tree down on house.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Meredith$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down multiple trees and wires.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindEast Meredith$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed power lines.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindEast Meredith-Emergency management reported several trees blown down by thunderstorm winds.
April 2023HailEast Meredith-no account filed
August 2023HailEast Meredith-no account filed
June 2013HailEast Meredith-no account filed
June 2006HailEast Meredith-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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

1 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
Lower Shavertown Covered Bridge7.9 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73001178 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware CountyAll 78 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.
  • 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.