Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
From the record
“Forest Home Historic District is a national historic district located at Forest Home in Tompkins County, New York. The district consists of 66 contributing buildings, four contributing sites, and two contributing sites.”
Wikipedia article Forest Home Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Tompkins County · listed in 1998 · category: District.
National Register reference number.98000999- 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
1900 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19001992
Fires near this property
139 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Forest Home Historic District
between 2001 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 20 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
68
Arson/incendiarism
20
Natural
17
Smoking
14
Debris and open burning
11
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
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
10 workings within 5 miles of Forest Home Historic District: 8 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
Block
