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Photograph of Mexico Village Historic District
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mexico Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Mexico Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Mexico in Oswego County, New York. The district includes 77 contributing buildings and three contributing structures.”

Wikipedia article Mexico Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Oswego County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Main, Jefferson, Church and Spring Sts., Mexico, 13114
  • When was it listed? June 1991
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Mexico MPS
  • Town. Mexico town
  • National Register reference number. 91000528 - 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

104 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Mexico Village Historic District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined61
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking6
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2007Smoking2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Smoking1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 August 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mexico Village Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
B.R. Dewitt, Inc. Gp-4 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this property

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mexico, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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
August 1993Tornado (F0)Mexico$50,000An isolated severe thunderstorm moved along the northeast portion of Oswego County. The initial damage from the storm, determined to be caused by strong thunderstorm winds, occurred in Texas where a large tree was blown onto a house. The resident there also reported golfball-size hail at the time. The thunderstorm then spawned a weak tornado which caused only tree damage for a path of 1 to 1.5 miles.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindMexico$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree which damaged a truck.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindMexico$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindMexico$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMexico$15,000Trained spotters reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindMexico$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindMexico$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMexico$10,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMexico$10,000no account filed
September 2010FloodMexico$8,000no account filed
September 2010FloodMexico$8,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindMexico$8,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindMexico$8,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMexico$2,000Trees and wires downed in the Town of Mexico.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMexico$2,000Trees and wires downed on Pumphouse Rd.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMexico$2,000Tree and wires downed.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMexico$2,000Trees and wires downed in the Town of Mexico.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindMexico$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMexico$1,000Tree and wires down on a driveway.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindMexico$1,000Trees were reported down.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMexico$1,000Tree and wires were reported down on Smithers Rd.
July 2023Flash FloodMexico-Ames Street is closed due to flooding.
July 2023Flash FloodMexico-County Route 41 in Mexico is closed due to flooding.
July 2023Flash FloodMexico-State Route 104 closed in Mexico between Emery Road and Standpipe Road due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Oswego 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Peter Chandler Houseunder 500 feet1991
Starr Clark Tin Shopunder 500 feet2001
Timothy Skinner House0.2 miles1991
Mexico Stone Store, The0.3 miles2010
Orson Ames House0.3 miles2001
Mexico Academy and Central School0.3 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000528 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oswego CountyAll 93 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.