Worcester Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Worcester Historic District is a national historic district located at Worcester in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses 24 contributing buildings representing the social and economic nucleus of the town.”
Wikipedia article Worcester Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 1975 · 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 Main St. (NY 7) between Decatur and Cook Sts., Worcester, 12197
When was it listed? June 1975
Category. district
Town. Worcester town
National Register reference number. 75001221 - 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

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Worcester Historic District between 1995 and 2019, burning about 44 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined	26
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
21 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 June 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worcester, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Worcester	$25,000	Numerous trees down with two silos sustaining minor damage from thunderstorm winds.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Worcester	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	East Worcester	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and powerlines, causing a fire on NY-38.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	East Worcester	$10,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over numerous trees and wires. This region took the brunt of the storm.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Worcester	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted several trees near the I-88 exit.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Worcester	$5,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees and wires.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Worcester	$5,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees and wires.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Worcester	$5,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	South Worcester	$5,000	no account filed
April 1996	Flash Flood	Worcester	$4,000	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Worcester	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Worcester	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down medium sized branches along Route 7.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Worcester	$2,000	Trees down.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Worcester	$1,000	Strong thunderstorms winds knocked down a tree onto a roadway.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Worcester	$1,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in two trees being knocked over.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Worcester	$1,000	Trees were blown down in the South Hill area.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Worcester	-	Wires were knocked down by strong thunderstorm winds.
January 1998	Flash Flood	Worcester	-	Showers and locally strong to severe thunderstorms dumped as much as three-quarters of an inch to an inch of rain in a short period of time across Otsego county. Since soil conditions were already saturated, isolated flash flooding resulted. The Schevenus creek near Worcester overflowed its banks early that afternoon with water covering adjancent roadways. By early evening, the creek had receded back within its banks.
July 2012	Hail	Worcester	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Worcester	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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.

1904 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Charlotteville quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1945 USGS Charlotteville quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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
Twentieth Century Steam Riding Gallery No. 409	5.0 miles	1998
South Worcester Historic District	5.2 miles	1992
Middlefield District No. 1 School	7.9 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001221 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otsego County	All 79 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.
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.