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Photograph of Essex County Home and Farm
Photograph by Bryan Nelson Elder, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Essex County Home and Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Essex County Home and Farm, also known as Whallonsburg County Home and Infirmary, is a historic almshouse and infirmary located at Whallonsburg in Essex County, New York. The property include seven contributing buildings and one contributing site.”

Wikipedia article Essex County Home and Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. SW of Whallonsburg on NY 22, Whallonsburg, 12936
  • When was it listed? September 1982
  • Category. building
  • Town. Essex town
  • National Register reference number. 82003357 - 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.

Then and now

1895 to 1999

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Essex County Home and Farm, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet covering Essex County Home and Farm, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

67 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Essex County Home and Farm between 2002 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined40
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkSPLIT ROCK MT FIRE
6 August 2015Natural1.5 acresNew York Forest RangersSPLIT ROCK MT FIRE

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Essex County Home and Farm: 8 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Limestone, General, Titanium, Titanium, Metal, Iron. 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
Split Rock Graphite ProspectGraphite, LeadProspect
Split Rock MineTitanium, Metal, Iron, VanadiumOccurrence
Split Rock MineIron, Titanium, VanadiumPast Producer
Splitrock Mountain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1885, 1890
Tupper Lake QuarryGranitePast Producer
Westport AreaTitanium, Metal, IronOccurrence
L E Dempster Farm ProspectTitanium, IronProspect
Snake Den Harbor DepositTitanium, IronOccurrence
Westport Area ProspectTitanium, IronProspect
Essex Lower QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this property

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whallonsburg, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWhallonsburg$50,000Numerous trees and wires downed by apparent wet microburst between Wadham and Essex.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWhallonsburg$50,000Multiple trees downed and uprooted between Willsboro and Westport.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWhallonsburg$25,000Apparent wet microburst downed several trees, as well as blew out a window and caused other structural damage.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWhallonsburg$5,000Trees down on Algiers Road and boat overturned on Lake Champlain.

Every storm recorded in Essex 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.

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
North-Sprague Farm1.9 miles2020
First Congregational and Presbyterian Society Church of Westport3.0 miles1988
Church of the Nazarene3.2 miles1973
Octagonal Schoolhouse3.3 miles1973
Essex Village Historic District4.8 miles1975
Lake View Grange No. 9704.9 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003357 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex CountyAll 114 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.