Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.
From the record
“MacDonald Farm is a historic farm complex located at Meredith in Delaware County, New York, United States. The complex consists of the main farm house, a hops barn now used as a garage, privy, smokehouse, incubator shed, barn, straw barn, creamery, mill building, and two residences built for married hired hands.”
Wikipedia article MacDonald Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.73001179- 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
53 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 53 fires within 5 miles of MacDonald Farm
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
34
Debris and open burning
7
Natural
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Smoking
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Other causes
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of MacDonald Farm: 3 producers.
All of them still produce. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Meredith, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 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.
Severe flooding occurred from Meridith south through Delhi. The entire town of Meridith was shut down due to the flooding. Many roads and culverts in the Meridth and Delhi areas were damaged by the flood waters with significant undermining reported.
The persistent bow echo moved into northern Delaware county and caused a bit more in the way of wind damage before finally weakening. Numerous large trees and wires were blown down across roadways both in Meredith and Davenport.
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.
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.
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.
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