Southworth Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Southworth Library is a historic library building located at Dryden in Tompkins County, New York. It is a masonry building with a steeply pitched gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Southworth Library (Dryden, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Tompkins 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 24 W. Main St., Dryden, 13053
When was it listed? June 1984
Category. building
Also known as. Dryden Village MRA
Town. Dryden town
National Register reference number. 84003195 - 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

1900 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Southworth Library, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet covering Southworth Library, surveyed 1900

Fires near this property

48 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Southworth Library between 1999 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	6
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 August 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Tompkins County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Southworth Library: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mott Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Osbecks Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oskecks Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Talari Co-Talsons Jr. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tompkins County

Storms near this property

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dryden, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 lightning, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
August 2003	Lightning	Dryden	1 hurt, $2,000	Lightning struck a car causing injuries to the driver and damage to the car. The 25 year old woman had pains in her chest and right arm. The car had the damage to the right passenger window, the side view mirror, alternator wires, and one tire.
September 2000	Lightning	Dryden	1 hurt	Lightning hit 86 year old man, the house he was in and tree in yard. Man not hurt. Tree down by lightning in yard.
August 1994	Tornado (F0)	Dryden	$500,000	An isolated thunderstorm produced a weak tornado in the town of Dryden along State Routes 13 and 392. A barn collapsed. Several large trees were downed on homes. A large tree fell on a car and destroyed it. Power and telephone lines were taken down. Several buildings sustained light roof damage. Roof shingles were blown off. Eaves were peeled up. Chimneys were damaged. Windows were blown out. About a hundred trees sustained damage.
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$50,000	no account filed
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$30,000	A line of thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts which knocked down trees and wires.
June 2020	Lightning	Dryden	$10,000	A lightning strike from a thunderstorm caused a house to catch on fire.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a couple of trees and wires.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds blew numerous trees down.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds blew numerous trees down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$10,000	The southern end of a line of severe thunderstorms affected eastern sections of the county. Several trees were uprooted or otherwise toppled in the town of Dryden around 900 am EDT. Power lines were also downed with a couple of streets closed off to traffic until crews were able to clear live wires.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$10,000	The same thunderstorm complex that affected portions of Steuben and Schuyler counties produced isolated wind damage in southeastern Tompkins county. A few large trees were blown down in and near the town of Dryden.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees.
August 2023	Tornado (EF0)	Dryden	$5,000	A tornado touched down near the intersection of Route 38 and Purvis Road in far eastern Tompkins County and knocked down some trees near the border of Tompkins and Cortland County. It then continued in Cortland County for many miles, finally lifting in a wooded area between West River Road and the Tioughnioga River \|\|At the time that the tornado touched down in Tompkins County, it was an EF-0, but it became an EF-1 in Cortland County. The majority of damage occurred in Cortland County.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree across a road.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down wires at Ferguson and South Streets.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$5,000	Numerous trees were blown down in and around the town.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$5,000	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$4,000	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto powerlines.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$2,000	Numerous trees were blown down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$2,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree across a driveway and into the yard of a residence.
July 2008	Hail	Dryden	-	A 55 mph wind gust was also measured on Simmons Road.
June 2024	Hail	Dryden	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Dryden	-	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Dryden	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Dryden	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Dryden	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Dryden	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Dryden	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tompkins County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1900 USGS Dryden quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1906 USGS Catatonk quadrangle1:125000
1949 USGS Dryden quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Dryden quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Dryden quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
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
Jennings-Marvin House	under 500 feet	1984
Luther Clarke House	under 500 feet	1984
Methodist Episcopal Church	0.1 miles	1984
Lacy-Van Vleet House	0.1 miles	1984
Southworth House	0.1 miles	1984
Rockwell House	0.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003195 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tompkins County	All 64 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.