West Main Street-West James Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“West Main Street-West James Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Richfield Springs in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses 58 contributing buildings and three eight contributing structures.”
Wikipedia article West Main Street-West James Street Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 1994 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. West Main Street--West James Street Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Roughly, along W. Main, W. James, Elm and Center Sts. and Taylor Ave., Richfield Springs, 13439
When was it listed? March 1994
Category. district
Town. Richfield town
National Register reference number. 94000257 - 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

46 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of West Main Street-West James Street Historic District between 1999 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	17
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
3 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 1999	Smoking	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
15 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	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 Richfield Springs, 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	Richfield Springs	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1903 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1945 USGS Richfield Springs 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

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
US Post Office-Richfield Springs	0.2 miles	1989
Tunnicliff-Jordan House	0.2 miles	2010
Church Street Historic District	0.3 miles	1997
Sunnyside	0.5 miles	1988
East Main Street Historic District	0.6 miles	1995
Lemuel F. Vibber House	1.1 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000257 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.