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Photograph of Unadilla Village Historic District
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Unadilla Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

“Unadilla Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Unadilla in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses 145 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, one contributing structure, and three contributing objects. the majority of the buildings are residential, with four churches, 11 commercial buildings, six institutional and/or public buildings, one historic cemetery, three monuments, and a limestone railroad underpass.”

Wikipedia article Unadilla Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

102 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Unadilla Village Historic District between 1998 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined63
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Unadilla Village Historic District: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Howe Jesse Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Howe Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Masonville QuarryClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Masonville QuarryClayProducer
Town Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unadilla Concrete Prods S & GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unadilla QuarryClayProducer
Unadilla Quarry and MillClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Unadilla, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2011FloodUnadilla$58,000,000Major flooding occurred along the Susquehanna River near Unadilla, NY from September 7, 2011 to September 10, 2011. The river crested at 16.34 feet on September 8 at 9:15 PM. The hardest hit area was the village of Sidney, NY which incurred tens of millions of dollars in property damage.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$25,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$15,000A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted a large tree falling on a house.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees on Covered Bridge Road.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down multiple trees and wires.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$10,000Numerous trees and powerlines were downed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$10,000A severe thunderstorm developed across southern portions of the county and blew down numerous trees in Unadilla around 5:52 pm EDT.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees done on State Route 7.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees and wires in Unadilla.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$5,000no account filed
October 2021Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$2,000Trees were blown down on State Route 7 near Unadilla.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and wires.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$2,000Trees down.
September 2013HailUnadilla$2,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down on a road.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$1,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in a tree being knocked over on county route 1.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindUnadilla$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindUnadilla-Trees fell on wires.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindUnadilla-Trees down.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindUnadilla-Trees down.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindUnadilla-Emergency management reported trees and wires blown down in Unadilla and Otego townships.
June 2025HailUnadilla-no account filed
September 2013HailUnadilla-no account filed
August 2007HailUnadilla-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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.

Listed places nearby

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Roswell Wright House0.1 miles1988
Unadilla Waterworks1.1 miles1992
Andrew Mann Inn4.0 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001079 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otsego CountyAll 79 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.