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Photograph of Andes Historic District
Photograph by Vonsky87, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Andes Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1922.

From the record

“Andes Historic District is a national historic district located at Andes in Delaware County, New York. The buildings are largely two story detached frame structures dating to the mid-19th century.”

Wikipedia article Andes Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Andes Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
15 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2016Recreation and ceremony3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Andes, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Flash FloodAndes$5,000Main Street in Andes is completely flooded.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindAndes$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down wires.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindAndes$5,000no account filed
June 2009HailAndes-Hail was covering the ground.
July 2023HailAndes-no account filed
September 2010HailAndes-no account filed
June 2009HailAndes-no account filed
May 2000HailAndes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Delaware and Northern Railroad Station0.4 miles2004
Walter Coulter Homestead Farm4.3 miles2025
Bovina Center Historic District5.0 miles2000
Jackson-Aitken Farm5.0 miles2003
New Kingston Presbyterian Church5.3 miles2002
New Kingston Historic District5.4 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84002215 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware CountyAll 78 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.
  • 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.