Bates Cobblestone Farmhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Bates Cobblestone Farmhouse is a historic home located at Middlesex in Yates County, New York. The farmhouse was built about 1836 and is a one-and-a-half-story, five bay cobblestone building with a one-and-a-half-story frame rear wing.”
Wikipedia article Bates Cobblestone Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 66 National Register listings published here for Yates County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 5521 NY 364, Middlesex, 14544
When was it listed? May 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Cobblestone Architecture of New York State MPS
Town. Middlesex town
National Register reference number. 92000436 - 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

62 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Bates Cobblestone Farmhouse between 1993 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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	31
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
26 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Yates County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bates Cobblestone Farmhouse: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hays Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Heys Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Heys Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Yates County

Storms near this property

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middlesex, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Middlesex	1 hurt, $50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees, wires, and utility poles. One tree fell on a house injuring a person inside.
June 1996	Tornado (F1)	Middlesex	$75,000	no account filed
May 2014	Flash Flood	Middlesex	$50,000	The Acorn Valley Trailer Park was surrounded by water.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Middlesex	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Middlesex	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down several 6 inch diameter tree branches.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Middlesex	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Middlesex	$5,000	Trees and wires were blown down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Middlesex	$5,000	no account filed
April 2017	Flood	Middlesex	$2,000	Water was reported on several roads in Middlesex.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Middlesex	$2,000	Trees and wires were blown down in Middlesex.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Middlesex	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed large limbs and wires.
July 2008	Hail	Middlesex	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yates County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1900 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Canandaigua Lake quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Canandaigua Lake quadrangle1:24000 - 4 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
Overackers Corners Schoolhouse	1.4 miles	1994
Milton Wilson House	2.2 miles	1994
Asahel Green Farm	2.6 miles	1994
Vine Valley Methodist Church	3.6 miles	1994
Middlesex Center Methodist Church	3.6 miles	1994
John Carr House	4.4 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000436 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yates County	All 66 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.