Jordanville Public Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Jordanville Public Library is a historic community library building in Jordanville, New York, United States. Built in 1907-1908, it is a one-story, gable-roofed structure with clapboard siding that features an entrance portico with four Tuscan order columns.”
Wikipedia article Jordanville Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 1984 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St., Jordanville, 13361
When was it listed? May 1984
Category. building
Town. Warren town
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. Trowbridge & Livingston
National Register reference number. 84002397 - 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

38 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Jordanville Public Library between 2003 and 2018, burning about 39 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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
Arson/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	2

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
3 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 June 2013	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 May 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 May 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Herkimer 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 Jordanville Public Library: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Jordanville Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Jordanville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this property

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jordanville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2021: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2021	Hail	Jordanville	-	There were multiple reports of dime to penny size hail covering the ground in Jordanville.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordanville	-	A barn was blown over due to thunderstorm winds in Jordanville.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordanville	-	Trees and limbs down.

Every storm recorded in Herkimer 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.

1903 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Jordanville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1945 USGS Jordanville quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam 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
Blatchley House	1.0 miles	2008
Holy Trinity Monastery	1.0 miles	2011
Church of the Good Shepherd	2.4 miles	1997
Sunset Hill	4.3 miles	2007
Case, James H., III and Laura Rockefeller Case, House	6.3 miles	2019
Van Slyke House	6.5 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002397 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Herkimer County	All 74 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.