Clarkson Corners Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Clarkson Corners Historic District is a national historic district located at the hamlet of Clarkson Corners in Monroe County, New York. The district encompasses approximately 60 historic resources associated with the Clarkson crossroads development between about 1804 and 1910.”
Wikipedia article Clarkson Corners Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe 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

Address. Jct. of Ridge and Lake Rds. and E and W along Ridge and S along Lake, Clarkson Corners, 14420
When was it listed? September 1994
Category. district
Town. Clarkson town
National Register reference number. 94001076 - 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

142 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Clarkson Corners Historic District between 2002 and 2019, burning about 79 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 47 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
Arson/incendiarism	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47
Smoking	16
Debris and open burning	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
8 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Clarkson Corners Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Brockport Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe 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.

1899 USGS Bergen quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1934 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1984 USGS Rochester 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
Main Street Historic District	1.3 miles	2004
Whiteside, Barnett and Co. Agricultural Works	1.4 miles	2001
First Presbyterian Church	1.4 miles	1999
First Baptist Church	1.5 miles	2011
Park Avenue and State Street Historic District	1.5 miles	2015
St. Luke's Episcopal Church	1.5 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001076 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 233 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.