Silver Lake Institute Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Silver Lake Institute is a community in Wyoming County, New York, situated on Silver Lake, south of the village of Perry in the Town of Castile. The community was founded as a Methodist-affiliated camp facility in 1873.”
Wikipedia article Silver Lake Institute, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Wyoming 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Wesley, Embury, Thompson, Haven, Lakeside & Lakeview Aves., Silver Lake, 14549
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. district
Town. Castile town
National Register reference number. 85002442 - 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

101 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Silver Lake Institute Historic District between 2001 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 16 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	65
Arson/incendiarism	16
Smoking	6
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Silver Lake Institute Historic District: 8 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine. 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
Geyers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Silver Springs Plant	Bromine	Past Producer	Brine
A.Kerr Bros.& Co.Well	Salt	Past Producer
Duncan Salt Co.Well	Salt	Past Producer
F.Eaton Well	Salt	Past Producer
J.Harding No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Morton Salt Co.Salt Well No.13.	Salt	Past Producer
Morton Salt/ Silver Springs Plant	Salt	Unknown
Perry Salt Co.Salt Well	Salt	Past Producer
Silver Springs Wells	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wyoming 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.

1905 USGS Portage quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Castile quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Castile quadrangle1:31680
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Castile quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo 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
Epworth Hall	under 500 feet	2000
Orator F. Woodward Cottage	0.1 miles	2016
Barna C. Roup House	1.6 miles	2015
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Perry	1.6 miles	2006
Perry Downtown Historic District	1.6 miles	2012
Perry Village Hall	1.7 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002442 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wyoming County	All 26 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.