Arthur Tavern

Built in 1838. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Arthur Tavern is a historic inn and tavern building located at Arthur in Oswego County, New York. It consists of a 2-story main block, three bays wide and four bays deep, with a wing.”
Wikipedia article Arthur Tavern, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Oswego County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1838.

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. Jct. of Clarke Rd. and NY 16, Arthur, 13114
When was it listed? November 1991
Category. building
Also known as. Mexico MPS
Town. Mexico town
When was it built? 1838
National Register reference number. 91001632 - 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

77 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Arthur Tavern between 2001 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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	44
Arson/incendiarism	19
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2007	Smoking	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Smoking	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire 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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1905 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Mexico 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 Syracuse quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Hamilton Farmstead	1.7 miles	1991
Mexico Railroad Depot	2.0 miles	1991
Phineas Davis Farmstead	2.3 miles	1991
Leonard Ames Farmhouse	2.4 miles	1991
Timothy Skinner House	2.5 miles	1991
Mexico Academy and Central School	2.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001632 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oswego County	All 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.