William Swarthout Farm

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

From the record

“William Swarthout Farm is a historic home located at Milo in Yates County, New York. This Greek Revival-style structure was built about 1850 and features the two-by-two-bay, central block and single-story wing with porch and entrance.”
Wikipedia article William Swarthout Farm, 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

Listed as. Swarthout, William, Farm - 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
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 94000956 - 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

132 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of William Swarthout Farm between 2002 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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	86
Smoking	15
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
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

Every fire recorded in Yates County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of William Swarthout Farm: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, REE, Zirconium. 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
Transelco/ Penn Yan, N.Y.	REE, Zirconium	Plant
J.Sanderson No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
J.T.Andrews No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Botsford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Milo Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Roberts 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 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 Penn Yan quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Penn Yan quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1942 USGS Penn Yan 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
Uriah Hanford House	1.6 miles	1994
H. Allen Wagener House	1.7 miles	1994
Charles Wagener House	1.8 miles	1994
Lake View Cemetery	1.9 miles	1996
US Post Office-Penn Yan	2.0 miles	1989
Sherman Williams House and Fruit Barn	2.0 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000956 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.