South Worcester Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

“South Worcester Historic District is a national historic district located at South Worcester in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses 41 contributing buildings and three contributing sites in this rural hamlet.”
Wikipedia article South Worcester 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

Address. Jct. of Co. Rt. 40 and Co. Rt. 39 and W along 40, South Worcester, 12197
When was it listed? November 1992
Category. district
Town. Worcester town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 92001563 - 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

35 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of South Worcester Historic District between 2000 and 2019, burning about 27 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 was 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	23
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
21 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2015	Other causes	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 June 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Worcester, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	South Worcester	$5,000	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.

1907 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500
1909 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Schenevus quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1945 USGS Schenevus quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Twentieth Century Steam Riding Gallery No. 409	4.2 miles	1998
	Worcester Historic District	5.2 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001563 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otsego County	All 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.
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.