Dolge Company Factory Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Dolge Company Factory Complex, also known as Alfred Dolge and Sons Felt and Sounding Board Factories and Daniel Green Factory Complex, is a national historic district located at Dolgeville in Herkimer County, New York. The district contains 10 contributing buildings and one contributing structure.”
Wikipedia article Dolge Company Factory Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. S. Main St., Dolgeville, 13329
When was it listed? September 1974
Category. district
National Register reference number. 74001238 - 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Dolge Company Factory Complex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 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	47
Debris and open burning	21
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
28 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dolge Company Factory Complex: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
	Salisbury Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fulton 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

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Oppenheim and St. Johnsville Union Society Church	5.0 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001238 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton County	All 25 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.