Gifford-Walker Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Gifford-Walker Farm, also known as the Alice Walker Farm, is located on North Bergen Road in North Bergen, New York, United States. Its farmhouse is a two-story Carpenter Gothic style structure built in 1870.”
Wikipedia article Gifford-Walker Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Genesee 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

Address. 7083 N. Bergen Rd., North Bergen, 14416
When was it listed? January 1980
Category. building
Town. Bergen town
Architectural style. Carpenter Gothic
National Register reference number. 80004276 - 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

69 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Gifford-Walker Farm between 2002 and 2019, burning about 38 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 17 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	31
Arson/incendiarism	17
Debris and open burning	10
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gifford-Walker Farm: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Brockport Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Clarendon Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Holly Quarry and Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Holly Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this property

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Bergen, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 lightning. 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
July 2017	Lightning	North Bergen	$75,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Genesee County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1897 USGS Albion quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1944 USGS Holley quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Albion quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Holley quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1984 USGS Lockport 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
	North Bergen Presbyterian Church	0.5 miles	2022
	Lake Street Historic District	4.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80004276 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Genesee County	All 27 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.