Thomas Barron House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“The Thomas Barron House is a historic house located at 1160 Canandaigua Road in Seneca, Ontario County, New York.”
Wikipedia article Thomas Barron House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Ontario County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Barron, Thomas, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1160 Canandaigua Rd., Seneca, 14456
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. building
Town. Seneca town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88001854 - 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

211 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Barron House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 151 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 30 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	88
Smoking	49
Arson/incendiarism	30
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ontario County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Thomas Barron House: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Salt. 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
Geneva Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Geneva Plant	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pat O'Connor No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ontario 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.

1902 USGS Phelps quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Stanley quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1952 USGS Stanley quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
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
Rippey Cobblestone Farmhouse	1.5 miles	1992
Parrott Hall	1.6 miles	1971
Washington Street Cemetery	2.2 miles	2002
St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church Complex	2.3 miles	2025
Smith Observatory and Dr. William R. Brooks House	2.3 miles	2008
First Baptist Church	2.4 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001854 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ontario County	All 78 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.