A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“Rose Hill Mansion is a historic house museum on New York State Route 96A in Fayette, New York. Built in 1837 on a site overlooking Seneca Lake, it is one of the nation's finest examples of monumental residential Greek Revival architecture.”
Wikipedia article Rose Hill Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 40 National Register listings published here for Seneca County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.73001269- 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
207 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Rose Hill
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 23 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
87
Smoking
48
Debris and open burning
24
Arson/incendiarism
23
Natural
11
Equipment and vehicle use
9
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Rose Hill: 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
Fayette, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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.
An isolated thunderstorm reached severe levels briefly along Cayuga Lake in eastern portions of the county. Strong winds downed many trees and power lines. Falling tree limbs caused minor damage to some boats anchored near the docks.
Emergency management officials reported trees and wires blown down by thunderstorm winds in Fayette and also in the town of Varick. A small fence was also blown over.
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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