Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“South Otselic Historic District is a national historic district located at South Otselic in Chenango County, New York. It encompasses the hamlet's historic core and includes commercial, residential, ecclesiastical, and industrial buildings.”
Wikipedia article South Otselic Historic District, 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.83001663- 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
39 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 39 fires within 5 miles of South Otselic Historic District
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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
14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
13
Recreation and ceremony
6
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Arson/incendiarism
1
Natural
1
Smoking
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
1 working within 5 miles of South Otselic Historic District: 1 past producer.
None of them 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
South Otselic, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 heavy rain.
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.
In the town of Plymouth, a mobile home was destroyed, a garage roof was torn off, and power lines came down. In the towns of Otselic, North Norwich, and New Berlin trees and wires were downed. Over 2,000 people in Chenango and Otsego Counties lost power.
A microburst occurred in South Otselic on the evening of July 15th. Estimated peak wind was 80 mph. The majority of damage was tree damage. There was also a report of a roof blown off of a building.
Wind damage occurred to 10 buildings, with one roof blown off. The damage occurred along Route 26 and the intersection of County Route 13 in South Otselic.
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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