Nellis Tavern

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Nellis Tavern is a historic inn and tavern located at St. Johnsville in Montgomery County, New York.”
Wikipedia article Nellis Tavern, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. SR 5, St. Johnsville, 13452
When was it listed? May 1990
Category. building
Town. St. Johnsville town
National Register reference number. 90000685 - 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

85 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Nellis Tavern between 2001 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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	35
Arson/incendiarism	22
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1

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
3 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Nellis Tavern: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Moyer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
St. Johnsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
St. Johnsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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.

1898 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1944 USGS Fort Plain quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Fort Plain quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam 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
Enlarged Double Lock No. 33 Old Erie Canal	0.5 miles	2002
Fort Klock	0.7 miles	1972
Margaret Reaney Memorial Library	1.0 miles	2012
Bates-Englehardt Mansion	1.0 miles	1989
US Post Office-St. Johnsville	1.0 miles	1989
First Methodist Episcopal Church of St. Johnsville	1.1 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000685 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 62 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.