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Middle Mill Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Middle Mill Historic District is a national historic district located at New York Mills in Oneida County, New York. The district includes 31 contributing structures and one contributing site.”

Wikipedia article Middle Mill Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Oneida County · listed in 1976 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. NY 5A, New York Mills, 13417
  • When was it listed? May 1976
  • Category. district
  • Town. Whitestown town
  • National Register reference number. 76001254 - 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

408 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 408 fires within 5 miles of Middle Mill Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 252 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 43 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/undetermined206
Smoking56
Debris and open burning46
Arson/incendiarism43
Natural30
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
9 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2000Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2000Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Middle Mill Historic District: 9 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Semiprecious Gemstone, Clay. 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
Ace of Diamonds MineSemiprecious GemstoneProducer1967
Unnamed Brick Clay DepositClayPast Producer
Borst MinesIronPast Producer
Davis OpeningIronPast Producer
Ellingwood OpeningIronPast Producer
Wells OpeningIronPast Producer
Burrows PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Doyles'Place Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
West PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this property

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New York Mills, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
October 2020Thunderstorm WindNew York Mills$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down tree limbs and wires.
June 2013Flash FloodNew York Mills$5,000Water from Saquoit Creek was rising rapidly, and affecting school grounds along NY Route 5A. The Clinton Street ramp was also closed due to flooding near NY Route 69 and NY 5A.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindNew York Mills$4,000Strong thunderstorm winds pulled a gutter off of a house and blew siding debris from a nearby building onto the roof.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindNew York Mills-Trees were blown down.
May 2013HailNew York Mills-no account filed
July 2011HailNew York Mills-no account filed
August 2007HailNew York Mills-no account filed
August 2007HailNew York Mills-no account filed
August 2007HailNew York Mills-no account filed
August 2006HailNew York Mills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Whitestown Town Hall1.1 miles1973
Neck Canal of 17302.0 miles1995
Uptown Theatre2.0 miles2020
Utica State Hospital2.0 miles1971
First Church of Christ, Scientist2.2 miles2023
St. Stephen's Church2.3 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001254 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oneida CountyAll 90 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.