Hiram Sibley Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Hiram Sibley Homestead is a historic home located in the town of Mendon in Monroe County, New York. More specifically, the homestead is in the hamlet of Sibleyville, named in honor of Hiram Sibley.”
Wikipedia article Hiram Sibley Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Sibley, Hiram, Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 29 Sibley Rd., Sibleyville, 14472
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Town. Mendon town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 85002291 - 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

109 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Hiram Sibley Homestead between 2000 and 2019, burning about 100 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 28 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	49
Arson/incendiarism	28
Debris and open burning	13
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hiram Sibley Homestead: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
General Crushed Stone Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Honeoye Falls Well	Salt	Prospect
Rochester Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Treat Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1901 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1934 USGS Honeoye Falls quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Honeoye Falls quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Honeoye Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Honeoye Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1983 USGS Canandaigua 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
St. John's Episcopal Church	1.6 miles	1988
Lower Mill	1.6 miles	1973
US Post Office-Honeoye Falls	1.6 miles	1989
Honeoye Falls Village Historic District	1.9 miles	1993
Gates-Livermore Cobblestone	2.3 miles	1996
Adsit Cobblestone Farmhouse	3.5 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002291 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 233 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.