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Larzelere Tavern

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Larzelere Tavern is a historic inn and tavern located two miles north of Branchport in Yates County, New York. It is a large, 2-story, three-bay-wide, four-bay-deep, rectangular gable-roofed main block with a gable-roofed side wing.”

Wikipedia article Larzelere Tavern, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 66 National Register listings published here for Yates 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3858 County House Rd., Branchport, 14418
  • When was it listed? December 1997
  • Category. building
  • Town. Jerusalem town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 97001525 - 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

81 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Larzelere Tavern between 1994 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 August 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Yates County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Larzelere Tavern: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C.M.Russell WellSaltPast Producer
Botsford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Botsford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Botsford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Botsford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Champlin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Champlin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jerusalem PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Nicolo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Yates County

Storms near this property

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Branchport, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 7 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2014Flash FloodBranchport$400,000Several creeks were flowing out of their banks, and water was flowing over some roads in the area.
August 2014Flash FloodBranchport$125,000Several roads had water flowing across them in the Branchport and Guyanoga areas. Some roads were washing out and impassable, forcing closures and detours in the region.
July 2015Flash FloodBranchport$50,000There were numerous reports of road flooding and closures in the Town of Jerusalem.
August 2014Flash FloodBranchport$50,000Numerous road washouts were reported in the area.
May 2014Flash FloodBranchport$35,000A small stream was out of it's banks and flooding a building that was damaged by flooding earlier in the week.
August 2021Flash FloodBranchport$15,000Numerous roads were flooded to the northwest of Branchport. Some washouts were reported with debris on the road.
July 2017Flash FloodBranchport$8,000Flash flooding had caused debris to collect on several roads in the area.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBranchport$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
April 2017FloodBranchport$1,000Ponded water was reported on West Lake Road.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBranchport-Minor damage to a vineyard
June 2014HailBranchport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yates County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Samuel Botsford House0.2 miles1994
Jemima Wilkinson House1.9 miles1994
Solomon Weaver House2.0 miles1994
St. Luke's Episcopal Church2.1 miles1994
Myron Weaver House2.3 miles1994
Thomas Bitley House2.4 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97001525 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yates CountyAll 66 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.
  • 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.