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US Post Office-Boonville

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“US Post Office-Boonville is a historic post office building located at Boonville in Oneida County, New York, United States. It was designed and built in 1937, 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 (Boonville, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Oneida 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Listed as. US Post Office--Boonville - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 101 Main St., Boonville, 13309
  • When was it listed? November 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
  • Town. Boonville town
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88002457 - 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Boonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning9
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 July 2020Smokingunder an acreNew York Forest RangersGOLDEN ROAD FIRE
3 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Boonville: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Boonville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Boonville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Boonville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Boonville PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Boonville Sand PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Boonville Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thomas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this property

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boonville, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
May 1993Thunderstorm WindBoonville$50,000no account filed
July 2005Flash FloodBoonville$20,000Thunderstorms with heavy rain caused localized flash flooding in the towns of Boonville and Ava. Roads and basements were flooded. County route 294 was flooded and closed west of the village of Boonville into the town of Ava. Water was up to the top of cars in this area. Mill Creek was flooding the Boonville fairgrounds. Some homes had water up to the first floor. A rainfall spotter in Boonville reported 3.65 inches of rain. Radar rainfall estimates were up to 4.5 inches.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBoonville$18,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree, utility pole and wires down on Lansing Place.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBoonville$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on East Road.
November 2006Flash FloodBoonville$10,000Spotter reported 1.75 inches of rain in 15 minutes at Delta Lake. Flooding reported in Clinton.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBoonville$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees and wires on Potato Hill Road.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBoonville$3,000Trees were blown down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBoonville$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down on wires.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBoonville$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree across NY 46 between Jackson Hill Road and Homes Road.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindBoonville$1,000Trees and wires were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBoonville$1,000no account filed
January 2018FloodBoonville-Flooding along Mill Creek and Merry Hill Road was approximately 8 inches deep across both lanes of the roadway.
May 2014HailBoonville-no account filed
May 2014HailBoonville-no account filed
May 2013HailBoonville-no account filed
May 2013HailBoonville-no account filed
May 2012HailBoonville-no account filed
May 2012HailBoonville-no account filed
May 2006HailBoonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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.

Listed places nearby

4 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
Erwin Library and Pratt Houseunder 500 feet1973
Boonville Historic District0.4 miles1979
Black River Canal Warehouse0.5 miles2003
Five Lock Combine and Locks 37 and 38, Black River Canal5.8 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88002457 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oneida CountyAll 90 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.