J. B. Royce House and Farm Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Royce House and Farm Complex is a historic home and farm complex located at Berkshire in Tioga County, New York. The house was built about 1829 in a vernacular Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article J. B. Royce House and Farm Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Tioga 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

Listed as. Royce, J. B., House and Farm Complex - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. NY 38, Berkshire, 13736
When was it listed? July 1984
Category. building
Also known as. Berkshire MRA
Town. Berkshire town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 84003111 - 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.

Then and now

1903 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering J. B. Royce House and Farm Complex, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet covering J. B. Royce House and Farm Complex, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

50 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of J. B. Royce House and Farm Complex between 1995 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	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
25 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 June 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Tioga 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 J. B. Royce House and Farm Complex: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Harrington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Lee Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tioga County

Storms near this property

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berkshire, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Berkshire	$10,000	no account filed
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Berkshire	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees on Akins Road as well as Ford Hill Road.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Berkshire	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	East Berkshire	$5,000	no account filed
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Berkshire	$4,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Berkshire	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm winds moved a cow shade shelter 50 feet.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Berkshire	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm winds snapped a tree and uprooted another.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Berkshire	-	A 61 mph maximum wind gust was reported at the Berkshire NYS Mesonet.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Berkshire	-	Large trees were blown down.
August 2009	Hail	Berkshire	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Berkshire	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Berkshire	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Berkshire	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tioga County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1903 USGS Harford quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1906 USGS Catatonk quadrangle1:125000
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Richford quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000

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
Levi Ball House	0.2 miles	1984
Deodatus Royce House	0.4 miles	1984
Nathaniel Bishop Collins House	1.2 miles	1984
Lebbeus Ford House	1.4 miles	1984
Berkshire Village Historic District	1.6 miles	1984
Calvin A. Buffington House	1.7 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003111 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tioga County	All 57 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.