Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
From the record
“North Broad Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Norwich in Chenango County, New York. It includes an area of detached residences in a variety of popular 19th- and 20th-century architectural styles.”
Wikipedia article North Broad Street Historic District (Norwich, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chenango County · listed in 1978 · category: District.
National Register reference number.78001845- 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 North Broad Street Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 13 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
28
Debris and open burning
26
Arson/incendiarism
13
Smoking
7
Natural
6
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Recreation and ceremony
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of North Broad Street Historic District: 3 producers, 1 prospect.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Natural Gas. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Norwich, the town this property stands in, in 57 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 31 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 8 flash flood, 4 lightning.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A supercell thunderstorm became tornadic briefly over North Norwich around 6:00 pm EDT. Trees were snapped off and twisted in all directions along the tornado's path. Several road signs were also blown over and a few homes sustained roof and siding damage.
Lightning struck a house on North Broad Street in the city of Norwich. The lightning started a fire in the attic. The fire smoldered for an hour before it was noticed and the fire departments responded. The fire and smoke damaged the second floor and attic. Water damage was mainly to the first floor. No one was injured due to the lightning.
A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over multiple trees in the cities of Preston, New Berlin, Oxford, and Guilford.
A thunderstorm briefly strengthened to severe limits just to the rear of a cell that had produced extensive damage across the county earlier in the evening. A few trees and power lines came down in the town of Norwich around 830 pm EDT.
Trees and wires were blown down by thunderstorm winds. Falling trees produced significant damage to homes and businesses. Kiwanis Park also sustained damaged.
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.
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.
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.
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