Jonathan C. Collins House and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Collins House and Cemetery is a historic home located at Constableville in Lewis County, New York. It was built between 1797 and 1802 and is a five bays wide and two bays long, center entry frame dwelling with a large rear wing.”
Wikipedia article Jonathan C. Collins House and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lewis 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Collins, Jonathan C., House and Cemetery - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. West Rd., Constableville, 13325
When was it listed? November 1988
Category. building
Town. West Turin town
National Register reference number. 88002137 - 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

34 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Jonathan C. Collins House and Cemetery between 2001 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
24 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Jonathan C. Collins House and Cemetery: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron. 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
Gingerich Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Port Leyden	Zirconium, Titanium, Iron	Prospect	1952
Port Leyden Mine	Titanium, Metal, Iron	Occurrence
Callanan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kerager Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lyonsdale Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Town of Leyden Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
West Turin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this property

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Constableville, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Constableville	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2005	Flash Flood	Constableville	$10,000	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Constableville	$10,000	no account filed
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Constableville	$8,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Constableville	$8,000	A video of a small rope tornado was posted to social media.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Constableville	$8,000	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Constableville	$5,000	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Constableville	$5,000	no account filed
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Constableville	$2,000	Trees and wires were reported down on James Street.
August 2023	Flash Flood	Constableville	-	Parts of Highmarket Road were washed out.
May 2022	Hail	Constableville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1905 USGS Port Leyden quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1907 USGS Port Leyden quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1940 USGS Port Leyden quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Constableville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Watertown 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
Constable Hall	0.6 miles	1973
Constableville Village Historic District	0.6 miles	1983
Leyden Common School No. 2	3.5 miles	2016
St. Mark's Church	3.6 miles	1998
Edmund Wilson House	3.6 miles	1973
Talcottville Cemetery	3.8 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002137 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis County	All 50 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.