Bute-Warner-Truax Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Bute-Warner-Truax Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located at Charlotteville in Schoharie County, New York. The district includes three contributing buildings, one contributing site, and two contributing structures.”
Wikipedia article Bute-Warner-Truax Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Truax Rd., Charlotteville, 12064
When was it listed? July 1985
Category. district
Town. Summit town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 85001611 - 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

62 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Bute-Warner-Truax Farm between 1995 and 2019, burning about 48 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 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	29
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	6
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
9 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Charlotteville, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood. The reports record 5 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
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Charlotteville	5 hurt, $100,000	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Charlotteville	$22,000	no account filed
April 2022	Flood	Charlotteville	$20,000	Flooding occurred in multiple areas within Schoharie County including Seward, Richmondville, Cobleskill, Breakabeen and Gilboa, causing roads to close. Heavy rainfall led to a mudslide on Flat Creek Road near Gilboa.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Charlotteville	$13,000	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Charlotteville	$1,000	A large tree was downed along Charlotte Valley Road near Charlotteville.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Charlotteville	-	A couple of trees were down in the town of Summit near Clapper Hollow.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Charlotteville	-	A silo was blown over at Stone Ridge Drive and Meade Road.
January 2010	Flood	Charlotteville	-	Widespread flooding was reported and significant runoff continued across Schoharie County.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Charlotteville	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Charlotteville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2006	Flood	Charlotteville	-	A trained spotter reported that a small bridge was flooded at Charlotteville.

Every storm recorded in Schoharie 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.

1904 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Charlotteville quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1945 USGS Charlotteville 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
House at 461 Spruce Lake Road	3.4 miles	2015
Terpenning-Johnson House and Cemetery	4.8 miles	2013
Bunn-Tillapaugh Feed Mill	6.4 miles	2006
Richmondville United Methodist Church	6.4 miles	2006
First Presbyterian Church of Jefferson	6.6 miles	2012
Jefferson Historic District	6.8 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001611 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schoharie County	All 52 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.