Charles C. Hovey House and Strong Leather Company Mill
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.
From the record
“Hovey House and Strong Leather Company Mill is a historic home and mill located at Bainbridge in Chenango County, New York. The house is a Queen Anne style residence constructed in 1889.”
Wikipedia article Charles C. Hovey House and Strong Leather Company Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chenango County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.96001426- 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
110 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Charles C. Hovey House and Strong Leather Company Mill
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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
51
Debris and open burning
18
Arson/incendiarism
11
Equipment and vehicle use
11
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Natural
4
Recreation and ceremony
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Smoking
2
Other causes
1
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Charles C. Hovey House and Strong Leather Company Mill: 1 producer, 1 past producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bainbridge, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 25 thunderstorm wind, 7 flood, 6 flash flood, 4 hail.
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.
The tornado initially touched down at the electric generating substation south of the village, on state route 7. Numerous large trees and power lines were downed. The tornado continued in a northeast direction across the Susquehanna River, to county road 39. Here a small barn was flattened and numerous large hardwood trees were sheared off or had limb broken. A tree fell across two cars. One very large, healthy limb fell across the roof of a house causing significant damage. Many smaller buildings were destroyed. The tornado then continued northeast, shearing off more tree limbs, before reaching interstate 88. An eyewitness there backed up his pickup to get out of the way of the tornado. After crossing I-88, more tree damage was evident for about 200 yards. The damage path became more diffuse before it crossed state route 206, where it quickly dissipated. Many trees and wires were downed along the entire route. The total path length was about 1.1 miles. The most intense damage was within the first 0.7 miles. The maximum width of the damage was about 300 yards, with the core damage from the tornado around 75 yards.
Minor flooding occurred on the Susquehanna River at Bainbridge from the morning of March 15th to the morning of the 17th. The river at Bainbridge crested at 15.1 feet which was 2.1 feet over the flood stage of 13 feet. Over an inch of rain combining with snowmelt caused the minor flooding.
A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in trees being knocked over in the Bainbridge-Afton area.
Minor flooding occurred on the Susquehanna River at Bainbridge from the early morning of March 27th to the early morning of the 28th. The river at Bainbridge crested at 15.3 feet which was 2.3 feet over the flood stage of 13 feet. Continued melting of the snowpack and a period of rainfall on the 24th and 25th led to the minor flooding.
Heavy rain caused flooding on multiple roads in the town of Bainbridge and New Berlin, including Buttermilk Falls Road, Hunts Pond Road, State Highway 8 and County Route 38.
Heavy rainfall caused minor flooding on the Susquehanna River at Bainbridge. The river went above its flood stage of 13 feet at 4:45 pm on the 16th and crested at 13.48 feet at 2 am on the 18th before falling below flood stage again around mid-morning the 18th.
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.
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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