Cyrus Gates Farmstead

Built in 1848 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“The Cyrus Gates Farmstead is located in Maine, New York. Cyrus Gates was a cartographer and map maker for New York State, as well as an abolitionist.”
Wikipedia article Cyrus Gates Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 66 National Register listings published here for Broome County · listed in 1999 · category: District · built in 1848, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Gates, Cyrus, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 10-17 Old Nanticoke Rd., Maine, 13802
When was it listed? January 1999
Category. district
Town. Maine town
When was it built? 1848
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 98001549 - 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

1901 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Cyrus Gates Farmstead, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet covering Cyrus Gates Farmstead, surveyed 1901

Fires near this property

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Cyrus Gates Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 193 acres in total. 8 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	41
Debris and open burning	19
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	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
26 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Broome County

Storms near this property

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maine, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 7 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2011	Flash Flood	Maine	$5,000,000	Catastrophic flash flooding occurred in the Town of Maine. Numerous roads, homes and bridges were severely damaged. Three to four feet of water flooded homes.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$75,000	A long lived bow echo type complex continued to plow eastward from Tioga county and produced additional damage across much of Broome county. Trees and power lines were first downed in the town of Maine around 440 pm EDT. Widespread wind damage followed downstream with numerous trees and wires toppled in the Triple Cities region (Endicott/Binghamton/Johnson City) from around 445 pm to just after 5 pm. Power was knocked out to thousands of customers in this area and several roads were blocked for a time from falling trees. As the cell progressed eastward to the Kirkwood and Conklin areas, more trees were uprooted or otherwise knocked down by the strong winds.
September 2010	Flash Flood	Maine	$50,000	Several areas in the western part of the county experienced problems due to flash flooding. The communities of Endicott, Endwell and Maine reported several roads flooded, washouts, and basement flooding. Several vehicles were stranded due to high water at road intersections and in parking lots.
January 2010	Flash Flood	Maine	$40,000	Route 26 was flooded about one quarter mile north of the village of Maine.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$30,000	A large portion of a roof was torn off a barn along with numerous trees blown down
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$25,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$15,000	no account filed
October 2021	Flash Flood	Maine	$10,000	Nanticoke Creek reported to be flooding several locations along Tiona and Nanticoke Roads.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$10,000	Scattered trees and powerlines were knocked down by strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted multiple trees along Pollard Hill Road.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees in Maine.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees across a road.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a large tree across both lanes of Route 26.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Maine	$5,000	Route 26 was closed due to flooding near Glen Aubrey.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$5,000	Trees and wires were blown down.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$5,000	A roof was blown off a mobile home. Trees and wires were also blown down in the towns of Fenton and Chenango.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$5,000	Severe thunderstorms moved across eastern New York on the afternoon and evening of July 7th as a stationary front lay across the Mohawk Valley. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines in many areas while intense lightning started several fires and killed a man in Albany. In addition torrential downpours resulted in some flash flooding as well as flooding of poorly drained low lying areas. Among the areas hardest hit were the Capital District Region where over 10,000 customers were left without electricity. In Albany a 34 year-old man was struck and killed by lightning as he was holding a metal weed trimmer, while a horse standing in a field near a tree was struck and killed by lightning in Fort Ann. Other areas hard hit included Saugerties, Norwich, Leonarrowdsville, and Kingsbury where numerous trees were downed some of which fell on cars and homes. Urban Flooding was reported in Mechanicville and Hudson Falls as storm drains backed up. While flash flooding occurred in Tioga County where many creeks were out of their banks and in northern Sullivan County where up to two feet of water was across roads from Roscoe to Lake Muskoday to Basket and trees were downed by flood waters. M34O
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$3,000	Trees and wires were blown down.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$3,000	no account filed
October 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$2,200	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down wires. As a result, a transformer caught on fire.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Maine	$2,000	Nanticoke Road has water over it and is closed to all traffic.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$2,000	Trees and wires were blown down throughout western portions of the county.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$2,000	Strong winds blew down several trees onto power lines throughout the county.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$2,000	Tree down with power lines on King Hill Road.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires onto a roadway.
July 2015	Hail	Maine	$1,000	no account filed
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	$250	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down large branches on Daughtery Road.
July 2025	Hail	Maine	-	Estimated golf ball size hail via social media photo.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Maine	-	Flooding was occurring on Nanticocke Road near the Maine Memorial School.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	-	Tree was blown down across road.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	-	Thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on Tiona Road.
May 2000	Flash Flood	Maine	-	A backyard was flooded by heavy thunderstorm rains.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Maine	-	Storm spotters reported trees blown down along Kattelville Road, Smith Hill Road, and Farm to Market Road.
August 2000	Hail	Maine	-	Trained spotters reported golf ball size hail and trees down in Maine.
June 2022	Hail	Maine	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Maine	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Maine	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Maine	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Broome County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

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.

1901 USGS Apalachin quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Apalachin quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1906 USGS Catatonk quadrangle1:125000
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Endicott quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1956 USGS Maine quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Maine quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Maine Central School	3.9 miles	1998
	Grace Episcopal Church	6.7 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001549 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Broome County	All 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.
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.