Jonathan Bailey House

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

From the record

“The Jonathan Bailey House is a historic house located on Bath Road in Milo, Yates County, New York.”
Wikipedia article Jonathan Bailey House (Milo, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 66 National Register listings published here for Yates County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Bailey, Jonathan, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Bath Rd., Milo, 14527
When was it listed? August 1994
Category. building
Also known as. Yates County MPS
Town. Milo town
National Register reference number. 94000926 - 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

123 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Jonathan Bailey House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 11 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	74
Smoking	13
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
2 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
12 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Yates 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 Jonathan Bailey House: 3 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Zirconium, Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
J.Sanderson No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Transelco/ Penn Yan, N.Y.	REE, Zirconium	Plant
Botsford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Botsford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Claude Pulver Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Holly Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Holly Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Milo Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Yates 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.

1903 USGS Penn Yan quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Keuka Park quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Keuka Lake quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 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
Hampstead	2.9 miles	1994
Sherman Williams House and Fruit Barn	3.0 miles	1994
H. Allen Wagener House	3.1 miles	1994
William Swarthout Farm	3.1 miles	1994
Sill Tenant House	3.3 miles	1994
Beddoe-Rose Family Cemetery	3.7 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000926 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yates County	All 66 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.