Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.
From the record
“Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Afton in Chenango County, New York. All but one of the buildings are two or three story commercial blocks built between 1868 and 1900.”
Wikipedia article Main Street Historic District (Afton, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chenango County · listed in 1983 · category: District.
National Register reference number.83001662- 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
63 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Main Street Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 122 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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
19
Debris and open burning
16
Arson/incendiarism
12
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Natural
3
Smoking
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Main Street Historic District: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Afton, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 17 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A microburst with maximum wind speeds of 90 mph, a path length of 6 miles and a path width of 0.5 miles uprooted numerous trees near the Afton area between 830 and 845 pm EDT. The microburst overturned two large farm hay wagons and peeled part of a roof off of a barn. Many trees were damaged at the Afton Golf Course. Initial reports indicate a motorcyclist was injured when a tree branch fell on him.
A significant downburst wind event hit the Afton area. Much of the damage was done to trees along the core path of the downburst, with scattered tree damage north and south of the core. The majority of trees fell to the east-northeast, with a slightly divergent pattern detected. Damage occurred to several homes from trees falling on the structures. The heaviest damage occurred near power lines north of the intersection of Algerine Street and Route 7. The path of tree damage was seen crossing Interstate 88, with uprooted and snapped trees.
Heavy rain caused flash flooding over the following roads in the Afton area: State Route 235, Wylie-Horton Road, County Route 27, Moran Road, State Route 41 and Morgan Hill Road.
A line of fast moving thunderstorms developed ahead of a strong cold front which crossed central New York in the late morning and midday hours of the 22nd. Wind gusts with these storms produced damage across many parts of central and northern Chenango county. Numerouse large trees and power lines were knocked down from Afton to New Berlin.
Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree blocking the entire roadway. The damaging winds were associated with the strong outflow boundary from the storm.
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.
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.
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.
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