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Photograph of Waterville Triangle Historic District
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Waterville Triangle Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

“Waterville Triangle Historic District is a national historic district located at Waterville in Oneida County, New York. The district includes 59 contributing buildings and encompasses the heart of the village where three streets intersect to form a triangle.”

Wikipedia article Waterville Triangle Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Oneida County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Stafford Ave., Main and White Sts., Waterville, 13480
  • When was it listed? April 1978
  • Category. district
  • Town. Sangerfield town
  • National Register reference number. 78001888 - 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

50 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Waterville Triangle Historic District between 2001 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 June 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Waterville Triangle Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Oriskany Falls QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Oriskany Falls QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterville, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 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 1996Thunderstorm WindWaterville$300,000no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWaterville$15,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWaterville$10,000Large, heavy, bolted down sheds were blown approximately 500 feet into a roadway. Several trees were blown down in the same area.
July 2013Flash FloodWaterville$5,000A road was flooded with people trapped in a vehicle.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWaterville$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto wires.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWaterville$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto wires.
May 2013HailWaterville-no account filed
July 2008HailWaterville-no account filed
July 2008HailWaterville-no account filed
June 2007HailWaterville-no account filed
June 2007HailWaterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78001888 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.