Covert Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Covert Historic District is a national historic district located at Covert in Seneca County, New York. The district includes 21 properties located in the hamlet of Covert.”
Wikipedia article Covert Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Seneca 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 listing

Address. NY 96, Covert, 14886
When was it listed? November 1980
Category. district
Town. Covert town
National Register reference number. 80002766 - 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

44 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Covert Historic District between 1995 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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	26
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	3
Smoking	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 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 August 1995	Smoking	1.0 acres	Green Mountain National Forest	not named
19 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Seneca County

Storms near this property

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Covert, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Covert	$20,000	A severe thunderstorm moved across the southern part of the county during the mid afternoon. Large trees and power poles were blown down in Covert at 3:00 pm EDT.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Covert	$5,000	Water and debris were reported over roadways in the area.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Covert	$5,000	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Covert	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked a tree and wires onto a road.
July 2010	Hail	Covert	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Seneca County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1902 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1942 USGS Trumansburg quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Trumansburg quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Trumansburg quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	First Baptist Church of Interlaken	3.7 miles	2002
	Lodi Methodist Church	7.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002766 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Seneca County	All 40 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.
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.