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US Post Office-Carthage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“US Post Office-Carthage is a historic post office building located at Carthage in Jefferson County, New York. It was designed and built in 1934-1935, 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 (Carthage, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson 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

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. US Post Office--Carthage - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 521 State St., Carthage, 13619
  • When was it listed? November 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
  • Town. Wilna town
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88002470 - 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

98 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Carthage between 2001 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined80
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Carthage: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Calcium, Iron, Sodium, Titanium, Water, Free. 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
Carthage Region AnorthositeAluminum, Calcium, Iron, Sodium, Titanium, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Cole Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

13 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carthage, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2002Thunderstorm WindWest Carthage$15,000no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCarthage$12,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWest Carthage$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCarthage$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCarthage$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCarthage$10,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCarthage$10,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCarthage$8,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCarthage$2,000Reports of multiple trees and wires down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCarthage$2,000A tree was downed onto power lines in the town of Wilna.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCarthage$2,000Multiple trees were snapped and felled.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWest Carthage$500A tree was reported down on Old Martin Road in the Town of Champion.
August 2024FloodWest Carthage-Road closed due to flooding in West Carthage.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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

3 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
First Baptist Church and Cook Memorial Building0.1 miles2005
State Street Historic District0.2 miles1983
Hiram Hubbard House4.2 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88002470 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 144 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.