House at No. 8 State Street

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“The house at 8 State Street is a historic home located at Mount Morris in Livingston County, New York. It is believed to have been built in the 1850s.”
Wikipedia article House at No. 8 State Street, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 1999 · 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.
Address. 8 State St., Mount Morris, 14510
When was it listed? January 1999
Category. building
Also known as. Mount Morris MPS
Town. Mount Morris town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 98001580 - 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

143 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of House at No. 8 State Street between 2001 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 33 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	74
Arson/incendiarism	33
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	5
Other causes	3

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
22 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of House at No. 8 State Street: 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Potassium, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Retsof Mine	Halite, Potassium, Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer	1884
Reynolds Quarry	Flagstone	Producer
Highway Dept. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kennedy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Geo.F.Hudson Well	Salt	Past Producer
Phoenix Salt Well	Salt	Past Producer
Royal Salt Co.Well	Salt	Past Producer
Sterling Salt Shaft No.1	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston 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.

1905 USGS Nunda quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Sonyea quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Sonyea quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Sonyea quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1983 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
New Family Theater	0.1 miles	1997
Gen. William A. Mills House	0.1 miles	1978
St. John's Episcopal Church	0.2 miles	1991
House at No. 30 at Murray Street	0.2 miles	1999
House at No. 13 Grove Street	0.2 miles	1999
State and Eagle Streets Historic District	0.3 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001580 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston County	All 92 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.