Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.
From the record
“The Chittenango Landing Dry Dock Complex provided dry dock for canal boats on the old Erie Canal. The original complex was built in 1856 and abandoned after this section of the "enlarged" Erie canal was bypassed by the new barge canal in 1917.”
Wikipedia article Chittenango Landing Dry Dock Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 83 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1992 · category: District.
National Register reference number.92000458- 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
88 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Chittenango Landing Dry Dock Complex
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 181 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 15 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
49
Arson/incendiarism
15
Natural
10
Debris and open burning
7
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Recreation and ceremony
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
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
8 workings within 5 miles of Chittenango Landing Dry Dock Complex: 5 past producers, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
Sullivan, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 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 NWS Survey confirmed a micro-burst, with straight line wind damage near Chittenango. The damage path began near the intersection of Bailey Street and Forbes Avenue just west of the Village of Chittenango. Large trees were snapped halfway up the base, with smaller branches blown down. Some limited damage occurred to a roof, but was likely due to structural problems and not just high winds. The damage path continued northeast through Sullivan Town Park, where several large trees were snapped halfway up the base. A few trees were uprooted. All of the trees pointed toward the northeast.||As the path continued near North Street and Genesee Street, the intensity of the damage increased. Most of the damage was to trees, which were snapped about two-thirds up the base. The most significant damage was structural damage to a church on McDonnell Street, where the westward wall bowed out. Eyewitness reports from the church stated that this occurred when strong winds hit the church, allowing the walls to bow back and forth.
The same severe thunderstorm that produced wind damage and hail in Onondaga county remained severe as it crossed into northern Madison county. Hailstones from dime sized to about nickel sized were observed by skywarn spotters from Sullivan to Erieville.
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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