Lindesay Patent Rural Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by US 20, NY 166, Fields Rd., O'Neil Rd., Co. Rd. 33 and Shipway Rd., Cherry Valley, 13339
When was it listed? August 1995
Category. district
National Register reference number. 95001024 - 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

34 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Lindesay Patent Rural Historic District (Boundary Increase) between 2002 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. None 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	21
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 June 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
28 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherry Valley, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Cherry Valley	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cherry Valley	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cherry Valley	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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 Richfield Springs quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Van Hornesville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1945 USGS Van Hornesville quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	East Springfield Union School	6.3 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001024 in Record Group 79.
Otsego County	All 79 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.
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.