Main-Broad-Grove Streets Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Main-Broad-Grove Streets Historic District is a national historic district located at Oneida in Madison County, New York. The district contains 194 contributing buildings, including Cottage Lawn and the Farnam Mansion.”
Wikipedia article Main-Broad-Grove Streets Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Main, Broad, E. Grove, W. Grove, Wilbur, Elizabeth, E. Walnut, W. Walnut, and Stone Sts., Oneida, 13421
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. district
City. Oneida city
National Register reference number. 83001705 - 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

124 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Main-Broad-Grove Streets Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 27 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	60
Arson/incendiarism	27
Natural	16
Debris and open burning	15
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
7 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
27 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Main-Broad-Grove Streets Historic District: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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
Johnson Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Valley Mills Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
West Stockbridge Hill Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oneida, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 16 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Oneida	$5,000,000	The derecho continued to plow towards the east from the Syracuse area into Madison county. Widespread wind damage again resulted, mainly across northern and eastern sections of the county. Several reports of large hail were also received. The line of severe storms first affected Sullivan and Oneida Townships between roughly 145 and 155 am EDT. Trees and power lines were downed throughout the area. Several automobiles in the parking lot of a convenience store in Oneida were damaged from falling trees. The storms ripped through the Lincoln, Stockbridge, and Peterboro areas from 155 am to about 205 am EDT. Numerous reports of golf ball sized hail were taken from skywarn spotters. One of these spotters also measured a wind gust of 75 mph. In Peterboro, close to a dozen homes were damaged from fallen trees or flying debris. One of these homes had its back deck severely damaged and a glass door shattered when the strong winds picked up large pieces of lumber and sent them flying into the backyard. Power outages were experienced by nearly 50,000 customers in the county during the height of the storm.
September 2011	Flood	Oneida	$800,000	Record flooding occurred along the Oneida Creek near Oneida, NY. The river crested at 15.55 feet according to a USGS high water mark survey. The previous record crest was 15.01 feet from an event back in October of 1976.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Oneida	$20,000	A line of thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts which knocked down trees.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Oneida	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed large limbs, trees, and lines. One tree fell onto a SUV at the Oneida Animal Hospital.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Oneida	$10,000	Trees and wires were blown down across Loomis Road.
June 2002	Flood	Oneida	$10,000	Heavy thunderstorm rains caused street flooding in the city of Oneida. Approximately 9 inches of water was on Farrier Street. The rain fell on wet ground from earlier thunderstorms that day in addition to rain from earlier in the week.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Oneida	$5,000	Flooding occurred on I-90 (NYS Thruway) in both directions at After Exit 33.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Oneida	$5,000	Trees and wires were blown down on Washington Street.
March 2007	Flood	Oneida	$5,000	Minor flooding occurred on the Oneida Creek at Oneida from the evening hours of March 14th to the evening of the 15th. The creek at Oneida crested at 13.0 feet which is 2 feet over the flood stage of 11 feet. Over an inch of rain combining with snowmelt caused the minor flooding.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Oneida	$5,000	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Oneida	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Oneida	$1,500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree onto a house and across a road.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Oneida	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down wires on Patio Circle Drive.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Oneida	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto East Grove Street.
January 2018	Flood	Oneida	-	Minor, low land flooding was occurring along Oneida Creek due to an ice jam. A vehicle was stuck, and filling with water.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Oneida	-	Local newspapers reported trees and wires down from thunderstorm winds in Oneida. Numerous wires down on Route 46 caused a portion of the road to be closed.
June 2013	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Oneida	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Oneida	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Oneida	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Oneida	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1895 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1939 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Utica 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
Cottage Lawn	under 500 feet	1980
Oneida Armory	0.5 miles	1995
US Post Office-Oneida	0.6 miles	1989
Oneida Downtown Commercial Historic District	0.6 miles	2018
Mount Hope Reservoir	1.9 miles	1997
DeFerriere House	2.5 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001705 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 83 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.