Daniel Chamberlain House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“The Daniel Chamberlain House is a historic home located at Newark Valley in Tioga County, New York. The house was built in three phases between 1835 and 1865 and exhibits characteristic features of the Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate styles.”
Wikipedia article Daniel Chamberlain House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Tioga County · listed in 1997 · 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.
Listed as. Chamberlain, Daniel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 627 Brown Rd., Newark Valley, 13736
When was it listed? December 1997
Category. building
Also known as. Newark Valley MPS
Town. Newark Valley town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 97001489 - 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.

Then and now

1903 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Daniel Chamberlain House, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet covering Daniel Chamberlain House, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

83 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Daniel Chamberlain House between 1999 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 9 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	39
Debris and open burning	22
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
29 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
9 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Tioga County

Storms near this property

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newark Valley, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 1996: 4 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
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark Valley	$15,000	An isolated severe thunderstorm downed large trees and wires, and blew the top off an old barn.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark Valley	$8,000	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark Valley	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark Valley	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tioga 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.

1903 USGS Harford quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1906 USGS Catatonk quadrangle1:125000
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Richford quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000

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
Sutton-Chapman-Howland House	under 500 feet	1997
Farrand-Pierson House	0.2 miles	1997
Maple Lawn Farm	0.9 miles	1997
Belcher Family Homestead and Farm	1.0 miles	1984
J. Ball House	1.9 miles	1984
Stephen Ball House	2.1 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001489 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tioga County	All 57 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.