Lance Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Lance Farm is a historic farm complex located at Lyme in Jefferson County, New York. The complex includes the farmhouse, a cattle barn, horse barn, a granary, forge, and milkhouse.”
Wikipedia article Lance Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson 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

Address. S. Shore Rd., Chaumont, 13693
When was it listed? September 1990
Category. building
Also known as. Lyme MRA
Town. Lyme town
National Register reference number. 90001323 - 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

28 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Lance Farm between 2003 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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	18
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chaumont, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaumont	$15,000	no account filed
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaumont	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2005	Hail	Chaumont	$10,000	no account filed
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaumont	$1,000	Trees were reported to be down on Three Mile Point Road.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1895 USGS Stony Island quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1942 USGS Point Peninsula quadrangle1:31680
1958 USGS Point Peninsula quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Pulaski 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
Getman Farmhouse	0.8 miles	1990
Union Hall	2.7 miles	1990
United Methodist Church	2.7 miles	1990
Wilcox Farmhouse	5.4 miles	1990
District School No. 3	6.2 miles	1990
Grenadier Island Schoolhouse	6.7 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001323 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 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.
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.