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Wheeler House Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

“Wheeler House Complex is a historic house and commercial structure located at Leonardsville in Madison County, New York. The complex consists of the Weheeler House and bank, the carriage house, and the Wheeler commercial block.”

Wikipedia article Wheeler House Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 8, Leonardsville, 13364
  • When was it listed? September 1983
  • Category. building
  • Town. Brookfield town
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 83001706 - 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

58 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Wheeler House Complex between 1994 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism11
Debris and open burning11
Natural4
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2013Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 August 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
16 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wheeler House Complex: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Belden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Welch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leonardsville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindLeonardsville$50,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindLeonardsville$50,000no account filed
September 2019HailLeonardsville-no account filed
July 2012HailLeonardsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001706 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison CountyAll 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.