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US Post Office-Richfield Springs

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“US Post Office-Richfield Springs is a historic post office building located at Richfield Springs in Otsego County, New York, United States. It was built in 1941-1942, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A.”

Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Richfield Springs, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 1989 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. US Post Office--Richfield Springs - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 12 E. Main St., Richfield Springs, 13439
  • When was it listed? May 1989
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
  • Town. Richfield town
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88002422 - 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

47 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Richfield Springs between 1999 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning5
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 1999Smokingunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
15 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2007Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richfield Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993Thunderstorm WindRichfield Springs$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
West Main Street-West James Street Historic District0.2 miles1994
Church Street Historic District0.2 miles1997
Sunnyside0.4 miles1988
Tunnicliff-Jordan House0.4 miles2010
East Main Street Historic District0.4 miles1995
Lemuel F. Vibber House1.0 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88002422 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otsego CountyAll 79 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.
  • 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.