Windsor Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Windsor Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Windsor in Broome County, New York. The district includes 70 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and one contributing structure (bandstand).”
Wikipedia article Windsor Village Historic District (Windsor, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 66 National Register listings published here for Broome County · listed in 1980 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. College Ave., Academy, Chapel, Church, Dewey, Elm and Main Sts., Windsor, 13865
When was it listed? July 1980
Category. district
Town. Windsor town
National Register reference number. 80002593 - 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

79 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Windsor Village Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 189 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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	37
Debris and open burning	21
Smoking	6
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
9 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 August 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	WINDSOR
26 June 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 June 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Broome 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 Windsor Village Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Graphite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Benjamin Franklin Graphite Mine	Graphite	Past Producer
	Windsor Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Broome County

Storms near this property

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windsor, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2001	Lightning	Windsor	1 hurt	Newspaper reports indicate a house on Stratmill Road was struck by lightning, slightly injuring one man inside.
June 2006	Flood	Windsor	$5,000,000	no account filed
August 2004	Flash Flood	Windsor	$1,000,000	Heavy rain caused flash flooding in eastern Broome County. Roads were flooded. At 10:48 PM EDT roads and bridges were closed in Windsor. Creeks were over their banks. A trailer park located on old Route 17 flooded. An hour later also in Windsor, numerous roads were washed out. State Highway 17 was flooded and closed in one direction between exits 79 and 80. A woman had to be rescued on Ostrander Road from a partially submerged car. The trailer park was completely inundated with water. Some of the trailers had water in the first floors. Rainfall amounts were 3 to 4 inches.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	West Windsor	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees on Frost Road.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$10,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds which uprooted or snapped more than 10 trees trees on Ouaquaga Road.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	West Windsor	$10,000	Trees were blown down.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	West Windsor	$8,000	Thunderstorms winds damaged the siding and porch of a house. Window fans and a window air conditioner was also damaged. This was an isolated incident.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree on Brown Road.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	East Windsor	$5,000	A roof was blown off a shed. A camping trailer was blown off its supports at Forest Lake Campground.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees along State Route 79.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$5,000	no account filed
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$3,000	Trees and wires were blown down.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a couple of trees at Bridge Street and Chapel Street Intersection.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$2,000	Trees were blown down.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$2,000	Trees were blown down on Kent Street and Route 79.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$2,000	Many trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree near Windsor.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$1,000	A few trees were blown down.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$1,000	Trees down on route 79 in Ouaquaga.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	East Windsor	-	Several trees were blown down. One tree fell on a car.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	-	Trees and powerlines down on Blatchley road.
June 2000	Hail	Windsor	-	Dime size hail was reported by storm spotters in Windsor.
September 2022	Hail	West Windsor	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Windsor	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	West Windsor	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Windsor	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Windsor	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Broome County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1905 USGS Nineveh quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1952 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton 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
Jedediah Hotchkiss House	0.8 miles	1982
Ouaquaga Lenticular Truss Bridge	3.1 miles	2003
Harpursville United Methodist Church	7.0 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002593 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Broome County	All 66 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.