Western Town Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Western Town Hall, also known as Liberty Hall, is a historic town hall building located at Westernville in Oneida County, New York. It was built in 1911 and is a two-story, gable roofed timber frame structure.”
Wikipedia article Western Town Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Oneida 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St. at jct. with Stokes--Westernville Rd., Westernville, 13486
When was it listed? November 1995
Category. building
Town. Western town
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 95001277 - 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

43 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Western Town Hall between 2001 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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	12
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
20 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this property

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westernville, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2004	Lightning	Westernville	1 hurt, $10,000	Lightning struck a tree which a boy was standing under at the A-OK Campgrounds and Marina. The boy was shocked but had no permanent damage. Lightning also struck the metal enclosure around the campground's 2,000 gallon gas tank.
July 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Westernville	$107,500	A tornado touched down in the Woods Valley Ski Area and then \|moved northeast into downtown Westernville. The tornado caused \|considerable damage along Main street. Several roofs were blown \|off houses and numerous trees were uprooted and snapped. The \|tornado continued to move northeast crossing the Mohawk River\|and paralled east of River Road, leading to crop damage and a \|roof torn off of a barn before lifting.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Westernville	$20,000	Numerous trees down and a utility pole snapped in half from strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Westernville	$10,000	Power lines were blown down across Main Street.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Westernville	$5,000	no account filed
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Westernville	$5,000	no account filed
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Westernville	$2,000	Trees were blown down.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Westernville	$1,000	Trees and wires were blown down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Westernville	$1,000	A tree fell on car. There were no injuries.
January 2018	Flood	Westernville	-	Water was flowing along portions of Route 46 in Westernville.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Westernville	-	Numerous road closures in Westernville due to excessive rainfall.
June 2008	Hail	Westernville	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Westernville	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Westernville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1904 USGS Boonville quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1947 USGS Westernville quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Westernville quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Utica 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
Gen. William Floyd House	0.2 miles	1971
Wright Settlement Cemetery	4.2 miles	2012
Beeches Historic District, The	5.7 miles	2023
Camroden Presbyterian Church	6.3 miles	2007
Rome Cemetery	6.4 miles	2022
Five Lock Combine and Locks 37 and 38, Black River Canal	6.6 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001277 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oneida County	All 90 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.