Rippey Cobblestone Farmhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Rippey Cobblestone Farmhouse is a historic home located at 1227 Leet Road in Phelps, Ontario County, New York. It was constructed in 1854 and is an example of a Greek Revival or Italianate style, cobblestone domestic architecture.”
Wikipedia article Rippey Cobblestone Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Ontario 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1227 Leet Rd., Seneca, 14456
When was it listed? October 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Cobblestone Architecture of New York State MPS
Town. Seneca town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 92001051 - 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

203 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Rippey Cobblestone Farmhouse between 2000 and 2020, burning about 138 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 31 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	80
Smoking	49
Arson/incendiarism	31
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ontario County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1902 USGS Phelps quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Stanley quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1952 USGS Stanley quadrangle1:24000 - 2 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
Thomas Barron House	1.5 miles	1988
Seneca Presbyterian Church	2.5 miles	1973
Ashcroft	2.8 miles	1975
Washington Street Cemetery	2.8 miles	2002
Parrott Hall	2.9 miles	1971
Nester House	3.0 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001051 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ontario County	All 78 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.