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Waterman-Gramps House

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

From the record

“Waterman-Grampse House is a historic home located at Nelliston in Montgomery County, New York. It was built about 1865 and is a small, stone house of coursed rubble with cut-stone lintels and sills.”

Wikipedia article Waterman-Gramps House, 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

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. School St., Nelliston, 13339
  • When was it listed? September 1980
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Nelliston MRA
  • Town. Palatine town
  • National Register reference number. 80002660 - 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

77 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Waterman-Gramps House between 2001 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism21
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1
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
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot 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 Waterman-Gramps House: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sheldon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weaver's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2014FloodNelliston-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 2009HailNelliston-Golf ball size hail was reported at Lock 15 of the Erie Canal during a thunderstorm.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindNelliston-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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Nelliston School0.1 miles2002
Lasher-Davis House0.2 miles1980
Nelliston Historic District0.3 miles1980
Jacob Nellis Farmhouse0.3 miles1980
Walrath-Van Horne House0.4 miles1980
US Post Office-Fort Plain0.6 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002660 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery CountyAll 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.