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Vernon Center Green Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Vernon Center Green Historic District is a national historic district located at Vernon in Oneida County, New York. The district is historically significant as a rare surviving example in central New York State of an eighteenth century New England type village green.”

Wikipedia article Vernon Center Green Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Oneida 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

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Roughly bounded by Park St., Vernon, 13477
  • When was it listed? September 1985
  • Category. district
  • Town. Vernon town
  • National Register reference number. 85002431 - 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

57 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Vernon Center Green Historic District between 2000 and 2018, burning about 40 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural3
Smoking2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Vernon Center Green Historic District: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Valley Mills QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Derwin FarmIronPast Producer
Freibergher Farm.IronPast Producer
Lanz Gravel BedSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Vernon Gravel BedSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bertie Waterlime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Eisler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kirkland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lawless QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this property

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vernon, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2013: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2013Thunderstorm WindVernon$5,000Trees were blown down at both Vernon and Delta Dam.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindVernon$2,000Trees were knocked down in Vernon, Verona and Moreland.
May 2008HailVernon$2,000Nickel to quarter size hail was also reported with this storm. The storm also knocked down small tree branches.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindVernon$1,000A few trees and some wires down
April 2001FloodVernon-Thunderstorms early in the morning of April 8th produced heavy rains across portions of Oneida county and created some locallized flooding. Portions of Route 233 and River Street in Oriskany, Mohawk Street in Whitestown, and Wurz Avenue in North Utica were closed due to flooding. Portions of Route 5 were also closed due to flooding. Most roads were reopened by the morning of April 10th.
May 2000Flash FloodVernon-Route 5 was reported to be under 1 to 2 feet of water as a result of heavy thunderstorm rains. Some residences were also damaged. One woman had to be rescued from a flooded trailer. Bartholemew Park sustained significant flood damage.
May 2008HailVernon-no account filed
July 2008HailVernon-no account filed
August 2007HailVernon-no account filed
August 2007HailVernon-no account filed
May 2000HailVernon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Vernon Methodist Church2.7 miles1998
Rev. Asahel Norton Homestead4.3 miles1985
Hamilton College Chapel4.8 miles1972
Elihu Root House4.9 miles1972
Deansboro Railroad Station5.5 miles2002
Clinton Village Historic District6.2 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85002431 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oneida CountyAll 90 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.