Clifton Springs Sanitarium Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Clifton Springs Sanitarium Historic District is a national historic district located at the Village of Clifton Springs in Ontario County, New York. The district includes the previously listed main Clifton Springs Sanitarium and Foster Cottage.”
Wikipedia article Clifton Springs Sanitarium Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Ontario County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

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 4 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. E. Main St. between Crane and Prospect, Clifton Springs, 14432
When was it listed? May 1990
Category. district
Town. Manchester town
National Register reference number. 90000818 - 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

118 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Clifton Springs Sanitarium Historic District between 2002 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 33 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	59
Arson/incendiarism	33
Debris and open burning	10
Natural	5
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Ontario County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Clifton Springs Sanitarium Historic District: 7 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Phelps Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Gravel Pit No. 11	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jansen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Jansen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mackenzie Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Manchester Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Manchester Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Phelps Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plant Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Salsbury Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ontario County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clifton Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Clifton Springs	$50,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ontario County

Maps showing this location

7 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 Phelps quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Clifton Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Canandaigua 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
Clifton Springs Sanitarium	under 500 feet	1979
Harmon Cobblestone Farmhouse and Cobblestone Smokehouse	2.2 miles	1992
Oliver Warner Farmstead	3.3 miles	1988
First Baptist Church of Phelps	4.0 miles	1992
St. John's Episcopal Church	4.0 miles	1978
Phelps Town Hall	4.0 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000818 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ontario County	All 78 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.