Morss Homestead/Federal City Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 23, Red Falls, 12468
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. building
Town. Prattsville town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 83001680 - 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

44 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Morss Homestead/Federal City Homestead between 1999 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
14 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 May 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1901 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1945 USGS Prattsville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1946 USGS Prattsville quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
Pratt Rock Park	0.8 miles	1992
Zadock Pratt House	1.9 miles	1986
Old Episcopal Manse	1.9 miles	2000
West Settlement Methodist Church	2.0 miles	1996
Prattsville Commercial Building	2.1 miles	1996
Prattsville Reformed Dutch Church	2.1 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001680 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 101 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.