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Photograph of McArthur-Martin Hexadecagon Barn
Photograph by Vonsky87, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

McArthur-Martin Hexadecagon Barn

Built in 1883. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

“McArthur-Martin Hexadecagon Barn is a historic barn located at Bloomville in Delaware County, New York, United States. It includes the 16-sided portion of the barn, calf wing and driveway, driveway ramp with stone embankment, two round silos and a frame addition.”

Wikipedia article McArthur-Martin Hexadecagon Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1883.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. McArthur Hill Rd., Bloomville, 13739
  • When was it listed? September 1984
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Central Plan Dairy Barns of New York TR
  • Town. Kortright town
  • When was it built? 1883
  • National Register reference number. 84002237 - 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

46 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of McArthur-Martin Hexadecagon Barn between 1999 and 2015, burning about 70 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning7
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBloomville$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree.
November 1996Thunderstorm WindBloomville$5,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBloomville-Emergency management reported trees down in Bloomville.
August 2023HailBloomville-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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, 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
Bloomville Methodist Epicopal Church3.1 miles2006
West Kortright Presbyterian Church4.2 miles2002
MacDonald Farm4.3 miles1973
McNaught Family Farm5.2 miles2019
St. Peter's Episcopal Church Complex5.6 miles1998
Hobart Masonic Hall5.8 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84002237 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.