Jacob Nellis Farmhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Jacob Nellis Farmhouse is a historic home located at Nelliston in Montgomery County, New York. It was built in the 1830s and is a rectangular, 1½-story, five-bay-long stone building with a three-bay lower 1½-story extension on the north side.”
Wikipedia article Jacob Nellis Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Nellis, Jacob, Farmhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Nellis St., Nelliston, 13410
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Nelliston MRA
Town. Palatine town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80002657 - 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

78 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Jacob Nellis Farmhouse between 2001 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 21 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	39
Arson/incendiarism	21
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
8 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 September 2020	Natural	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
15 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Jacob Nellis Farmhouse: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
	Sheldon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Weaver's Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this property

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nelliston, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2014	Flood	Nelliston	-	A mudslide occurred near the intersection of Happy Hollow Road and Old Fort Plain Road due to recent heavy rainfall from slow moving thunderstorms.
July 2009	Hail	Nelliston	-	Golf ball size hail was reported at Lock 15 of the Erie Canal during a thunderstorm.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Nelliston	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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.

1898 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1944 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Waterman-Gramps House	0.3 miles	1980
Nelliston School	0.3 miles	2002
Lasher-Davis House	0.4 miles	1980
Nelliston Historic District	0.4 miles	1980
Walrath-Van Horne House	0.8 miles	1980
US Post Office-Fort Plain	0.8 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002657 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 62 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.