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Photograph of Cold Brook Feed Mill
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cold Brook Feed Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Cold Brook Feed Mill is a historic grist mill located at Cold Brook in Herkimer County, New York. It includes the mill, mill dam, flume, and land on both sides of the stream between the mill and dam.”

Wikipedia article Cold Brook Feed Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 8, Cold Brook, 13324
  • When was it listed? October 1974
  • Category. building
  • Town. Russia town
  • National Register reference number. 74001243 - 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Cold Brook Feed Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Other causes1
Natural1

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
28 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
22 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
21 August 2002Natural2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cold Brook Feed Mill: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barneveld Sand & Gravel No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bienick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravesville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Material Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Number 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plant Number 2 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Poland PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this property

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cold Brook, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCold Brook$20,000A roof was ripped off a house, a shed was flipped over, and a few trees and powerlines were downed.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindCold Brook$5,000no account filed
October 2019Thunderstorm WindCold Brook-A tree was reported down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCold Brook-A tree and wires were reported down due to thunderstorm winds one mile east of Cold Brook. The downed wires caused a fire to start at a house as well.
June 2011Flash FloodCold Brook-The intersection of Grant Road and Military Road in Cold Brook was reported flooded due to heavy rainfall.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCold Brook-A tree was reported down on a wire on Grant Road in Russia due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2008HailCold Brook-Penny size hail was reported approximately 2 miles north of Cold Brook during a thunderstorm. The hail fell for approximately 4 to 5 minutes.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCold Brook-Large limbs were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds in Cold Brook.
November 2005HailCold Brook-A trained spotter reported hail at Cold Brook.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCold Brook-Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Herkimer County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74001243 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Herkimer CountyAll 74 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.
  • 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.