Thomas Bitley 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 Thomas Bitley House is a historic house located at Jerusalem in Yates County, New York.”
Wikipedia article Thomas Bitley House, 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Bitley, Thomas, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Lake St., Jerusalem, 14418
When was it listed? August 1994
Category. building
Also known as. Yates County MPS
Town. Jerusalem town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 94000928 - 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

105 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Bitley House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 13 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	54
Debris and open burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	13
Natural	5
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
12 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
12 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Yates County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Thomas Bitley House: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
C.M.Russell Well	Salt	Past Producer
Botsford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Botsford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Botsford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Botsford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Champlin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Champlin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jerusalem Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Nicolo Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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 Pulteney quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Pulteney 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
Peter Bitley House	under 500 feet	1994
Dr. James Wrightman House	0.1 miles	1994
Myron Weaver House	0.2 miles	1994
St. Luke's Episcopal Church	0.3 miles	1994
Solomon Weaver House	0.4 miles	1994
Esperanza	0.9 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000928 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.