Tall Pines

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Tall Pines is a historic home located at Cazenovia in Madison County, New York. The main block of the house was built about 1835 and is a two-story, three-bay, rectangular, frame building in the Federal style.”
Wikipedia article Tall Pines (Cazenovia, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1987 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Ridge Rd., Cazenovia, 13035
When was it listed? November 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Cazenovia Town MRA
Town. Cazenovia town
National Register reference number. 87001875 - 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

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Tall Pines between 1993 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 5 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	22
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 June 2020	Natural	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Madison 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 Tall Pines: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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
Cazenovia Gravel Bed	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cazenovia Ready Mix Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Crouse Gravel Bed	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Riedel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cazenovia, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cazenovia	$80,000	A cluster of severe thunderstorms moved across the county during the afternoon. Numerous trees and wires were blown down across the county at approximately 5:55 pm EDT.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cazenovia	$50,000	A cluster of severe thunderstorms moving across the county blew down trees and wires in Cazenovia at 6:30 pm EDT. Damage to a barn and mobile home was sustained in Brookfield by these storms at 6:50 pm EDT.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cazenovia	$50,000	A cluster of severe thunderstorms moved across the county during the afternoon. Trees, wires, and a silo were blown down in Cazenovia and Madison at approximately 3:00 pm. Numerous trees and wires were also blown down in Smithfield Township between 3:10 and 3:20 pm EDT.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Cazenovia	$22,000	Widespread flash flooding of most creeks and urbanized areas occurred throughout the town of Nelson. Culverts and roads were washed out in several places. Some residences experienced flooding.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Cazenovia	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees from Cazenovia to Morrisville including Nelson and Erieville.
November 2006	Flash Flood	Cazenovia	$10,000	Road flooding in Cazenovia and Hamilton.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cazenovia	$7,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cazenovia	$5,000	Several trees and powerlines blown down
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cazenovia	$5,000	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Cazenovia	$2,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Cazenovia	$500	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cazenovia	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Cazenovia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1897 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1943 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1944 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich 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
Chappell Farmhouse	0.2 miles	1987
Cedar Cove	0.4 miles	1991
Notleymere	0.4 miles	1991
Ormonde	0.4 miles	1991
Annas Farmhouse	0.4 miles	1988
York Lodge	0.8 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001875 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 83 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.