Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.
From the record
“Neck "Canal" of 1730 is a historic navigation channel located at Marcy in Oneida County, New York. It comprised the extant remains of a "canal" dug in 1730 to improve navigation along the Mohawk River.”
Wikipedia article Neck Canal of 1730, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 90 National Register listings published here for Oneida County · listed in 1995 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.95001011- 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
402 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 402 fires within 5 miles of Neck Canal of 1730
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 43 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
200
Smoking
57
Debris and open burning
50
Arson/incendiarism
43
Natural
29
Misuse of fire by a minor
14
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Neck Canal of 1730: 5 past producers, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Semiprecious Gemstone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Marcy, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
Widespread flash flooding of small streams and urbanized areas occurred throughout the towns of Marcy and Whitesboro. Culverts and roads were washed out in several locations. Several residences and businesses experienced flooding.
A squall line moved across eastern New York on the afternoon and evening of August 2nd resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of the region. There were numerous reports of large tree limbs, trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds. The areas hardest hit were Herkimer, Montgomery, Oneida, Otsego and Washington Counties. In all over 15,000 customers were left without power.
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.
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.
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.
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