Oliver Warner Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Oliver Warner Farmstead is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in the towns of Hopewell and Phelps near Clifton Springs in Ontario County, New York. The 203-acre (82 ha) district contains three contributing buildings.”
Wikipedia article Oliver Warner Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Listed as. Warner, Oliver, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. NY 88, Clifton Springs, 14432
When was it listed? November 1988
Category. district
Town. Phelps town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88002189 - 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

74 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Oliver Warner Farmstead between 2002 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 21 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	37
Arson/incendiarism	21
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	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
21 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ontario 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 Oliver Warner Farmstead: 5 past producers, 5 producers. 5 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	Recorded
Gravel Pit No. 11	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mackenzie Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Manchester Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Manchester Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Phelps Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plant Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Salsbury Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Smith Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Smith Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ontario County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clifton Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Clifton Springs	$50,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ontario County

Maps showing this location

7 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
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Clifton Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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
Clifton Springs Sanitarium Historic District	3.3 miles	1990
Clifton Springs Sanitarium	3.3 miles	1979
First Baptist Church of Phelps	4.7 miles	1992
St. John's Episcopal Church	4.8 miles	1978
Phelps Town Hall	4.8 miles	1996
Dr. John Quincy Howe House	4.9 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002189 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.
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.