Fort Brewerton

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Fort Brewerton is a historic fort site located at Brewerton in Oswego County, New York. It is the site of a fort that originally was in the form of an eight-pointed star with sixteen 30-foot (9.1 m) faces surrounded by a 10-foot (3.0 m) moat.”
Wikipedia article Fort Brewerton, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Oswego County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. State and Lansing Sts., Brewerton, 13036
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. site
Town. Hastings town
National Register reference number. 73001247 - 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

143 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Fort Brewerton between 2000 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 14 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	70
Arson/incendiarism	20
Natural	14
Smoking	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
31 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	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 Fort Brewerton: 1 past producer, 1 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
	Cecil Perry Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Cecil Perry Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1895 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1940 USGS Brewerton quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Brewerton quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Brewerton quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Brewerton quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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
Schroeppel House	4.6 miles	1982
Trinity Church	6.7 miles	1982
Northrup-Gilbert House	7.9 miles	2000
Sweet Memorial Building	8.0 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001247 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.