Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.
From the record
“The Cambridge Historic District is located in an irregular pattern along streets in the village of Cambridge in Washington County, New York. It is a 105-acre (42 ha) area reflecting the extent of the village when it was first incorporated in the 1860s and its subsequent development in the years the Rice Seed Company, largest in the world at the time, was located here.”
Wikipedia article Cambridge Historic District (Cambridge, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 52 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1978 · category: District.
National Register reference number.78001922- 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.
Then and now
1895 to 1989
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18951989
Fires near this property
125 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Cambridge Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 167 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 18 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
54
Debris and open burning
33
Arson/incendiarism
18
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Natural
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Smoking
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
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
1 working within 5 miles of Cambridge Historic District: 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead. 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
Cambridge, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 33 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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.
An emergency manager reported numerous instances of trees and wires down in Cambridge, one of which included a downed tree on a residential structure. The roadways impacted include Center Cambridge Road, South Park Street, Spring Street, State Route 372, English Road, and County Route 59.
Multiple trees were downed in the Town of Cambridge including South Park Street, North Park Street and County Route 59. A tree fell onto a residence on Avenue A.
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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