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Red Mill Farm

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

From the record

“Red Mill Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located at Colosse in Oswego County, New York. The district includes a number of contributing structures; the farmhouse, tool shop, granary, horse barn, silo, garage, milkhouse, and windmill.”

Wikipedia article Red Mill Farm, 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. 7177 Red Mill Rd., Colosse, 13131
  • When was it listed? November 1991
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Mexico MPS
  • Town. Mexico town
  • National Register reference number. 91001629 - 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

109 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Red Mill Farm between 2000 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined63
Arson/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning8
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2013Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 August 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Red Mill Farm: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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
Chauvin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
French Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hays & Smith PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hogback Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Weaver PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Weaver Pit Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this property

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colosse, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flash flood. 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
July 2023Flash FloodColosse-La Casse Road closed 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
Asa and Caroline Wing House0.9 miles2001
Pleasant Lawn Cemetery1.6 miles2005
Stillman Farmstead2.5 miles1991
Slack Farmstead2.7 miles1991
Carley's Mills Schoolhouse3.8 miles2005
Fowler-Loomis House4.4 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001629 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.