North Blenheim Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“North Blenheim Historic District is a national historic district located at the hamlet of North Blenheim in Schoharie County, New York. The district includes 25 contributing buildings and one contributing site.”
Wikipedia article North Blenheim Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie 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. Both sides of NY 30, beside Schoharie Creek, Blenheim, 12131
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. district
Town. Blenheim town
National Register reference number. 74001303 - 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of North Blenheim Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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	19
Debris and open burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
8 September 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
9 August 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
7 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
24 August 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
9 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Schoharie 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 North Blenheim Historic District: 1 producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Wawaywando Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Schoharie County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1901 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1945 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Old Blenheim Bridge	0.5 miles	1966
Lansing Manor House	1.5 miles	1973
Breakabeen Historic District	5.0 miles	1974
West Fulton Methodist Church	6.6 miles	2013
Stewart House and Howard-Stewart Family Cemetery	6.9 miles	2012
South Gilboa Railroad Station	6.9 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001303 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schoharie County	All 52 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.