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Stephen Phelps House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“The Stephen Phelps House is a historic home located at Penfield in Monroe County, New York. It is a representative example of the vernacular Federal style of architecture from the settlement period.”

Wikipedia article Stephen Phelps House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Phelps, Stephen, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 2701 Penfield Rd., Penfield, 14450
  • When was it listed? February 1995
  • Category. building
  • Town. Penfield town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 94001635 - 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

359 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 359 fires within 5 miles of Stephen Phelps House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 242 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 58 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/undetermined200
Arson/incendiarism58
Debris and open burning38
Smoking23
Natural20
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Stephen Phelps House: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Penfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Redman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Redman PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Penfield, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007LightningPenfield1 hurtno account filed
July 1998Flash FloodPenfield$100,000no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindPenfield$50,000no account filed
June 2008HailEast Penfield$35,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPenfield$15,000A falling tree caused damage to the corner of a house in Penfield.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPenfield$15,000Law enforcement reported wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindPenfield$15,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindPenfield$10,000no account filed
June 2006HailPenfield$10,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPenfield$8,000no account filed
October 2024Thunderstorm WindPenfield$2,000Trees and wires downed.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindPenfield$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPenfield$1,500Tree on top of power lines at the intersection of Baird and Wheelock roads.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPenfield$1,000Reports of trees snapped and branches downed in Penfield.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPenfield$1,000Powerlines downed.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPenfield-Several traffic lights blown down along Panorama Trail.
August 2019HailPenfield-no account filed
July 2018HailPenfield-no account filed
June 2007HailPenfield-no account filed

Every storm 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Harvey Whalen House2.9 miles1994
Pines of Perinton Apartments2.9 miles2023
First Baptist Church of Fairport3.1 miles2006
First Congregational Church of Fairport3.2 miles2018
Henry DeLand House3.2 miles1980
Fairport Public Library3.2 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94001635 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe CountyAll 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.
  • 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.