Earlville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Earlville Historic District is a national historic district located at Earlville in Chenango and Madison County, New York. It includes the commercial area at the center of the village and residential areas on the main thoroughfares and two side streets.”
Wikipedia article Earlville Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chenango County · listed in 1982 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Fayette, N., S., E., and W. Main Sts., Earlville, 13332
When was it listed? October 1982
Category. district
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 82001096 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Earlville Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Natural	10
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
24 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2005	Natural	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
2 August 1993	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
13 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Chenango 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 Earlville Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jewett Bed	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lebanon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Lebanon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chenango 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.

1903 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Earlville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Earlville quadrangle1:31680
1944 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich 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
Earlville Opera House	0.1 miles	1973
Hazard Jr. Willcox Farm	1.6 miles	2019
West Hill Cemetery	3.3 miles	2006
Smyrna Town Hall-Opera House	3.9 miles	2008
Smyrna Elementary School	4.0 miles	1996
Upperville Meeting House	4.6 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82001096 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chenango County	All 47 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.