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US Post Office-Hamilton

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“US Post Office-Hamilton is a historic post office building located at Hamilton in Madison County, New York, United States. It was designed and built in 1936, 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 (Hamilton, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Madison 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--Hamilton - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 32 Broad St., Hamilton, 13346
When was it listed? May 1989
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
Town. Hamilton town
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88002522 - 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Hamilton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 12 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	46
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	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
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 1993	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
13 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
25 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Hamilton: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Jewett Bed	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lebanon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Lebanon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Melvin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamilton, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 4 hail. 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 2018	Flash Flood	Hamilton	$100,000	Streets flooded throughout the village of Hamilton. Many cars stranded.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$30,000	A thunderstorm intensified to severe levels across southern sections of the county early in the evening. Strong winds knocked down several trees in the town of Hamilton. One of these trees fell onto a house and heavily damaged its back porch and rear deck.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Hamilton	$25,000	Flood waters washed out a section of Route 12B between Earlville and Hamilton.
July 2004	Flash Flood	Hamilton	$10,000	Roads washed out. State Route 12B temporarily closed.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees and large branches on a property.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees at Colgate University.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees near Lake Moraine.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$5,000	Several pine trees were uprooted and broken on Wylie Road.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$5,000	10 to 12 trees down in the towns of Hamilton and Lebanon.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew a few trees down in the town of Hamilton near Earlville.
May 2025	Flash Flood	Hamilton	$1,000	Hamilton Street has flooded according to law enforcement.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree uprooted on Spring Street.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down wires on Randallsville Road.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree which blocked a road.
August 2024	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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.

1902 USGS Morrisville quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1943 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1944 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich 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
Hamilton Village Historic District	0.4 miles	1984
Old Biology Hall	0.5 miles	1973
Adon Smith House	0.7 miles	1974
Chenango Canal Summit Level	4.3 miles	2005
Coolidge Stores Building	5.0 miles	2001
Old Madison County Courthouse	7.5 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002522 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 83 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.