Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“Ava Town Hall is a historic town hall building located at Ava in Oneida County, New York. It was built in 1897 and is a two-story, balloon frame structure with a T-shaped floor plan, stone foundation, and intersecting gable roofs.”
Wikipedia article Ava Town Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 90 National Register listings published here for Oneida County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.92000453- 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
36 since 1998
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Ava Town Hall
between 1998 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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
15
Natural
6
Arson/incendiarism
5
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Debris and open burning
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Ava Town Hall: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ava, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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.
A thunderstorm moved through far Northern Oneida County that had broad rotation tighten up as it approached Ava. A weak tornado touched down and traveled about 3 miles and was on the ground for approximately 8 minutes. The first area of damage that was surveyed was off of Vary Road west of Ava with a few trees down as well as scattered tree debris that fell in a convergent pattern. The next stop was in the town of Ava where there was damage that indicated a maximum of 80 mph winds. A chicken coop was lofted and set down several yards from its original location as well as a large tree that fell on a pig pen. Once again trees on the south side of the property fell in a convergent pattern. The last location that had any damage was at a farm house a |little over a mile to the east of Ava on Flint Town Road where a large, partly rotten tree fell on the house. Minor damage occurred to the property from the tree falling on it but no visible wind damage was seen. With the tree being weak and no other significant tree damage in the vicinity and no more visible damage to the east, this was determined to be roughly the end of the tornado's path.
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.
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.
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.
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