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Photograph of Rider-Hopkins Farm and Olmsted Camp
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Rider-Hopkins Farm and Olmstead Camp

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1925.

From the record

“Rider-Hopkins Farm and Olmsted Camp is a historic farm and summer camp located at Sardinia in Erie County, New York. It consists of a 188.4-acre (0.762 km2) property containing a Greek Revival style brick farmhouse dating to the 1840s known as the James and Abigail Hopkins House.”

Wikipedia article Rider-Hopkins Farm and Olmsted Camp, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie 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

  • Address. 12820 Benton Rd., Sardinia, 14134
  • When was it listed? January 1999
  • Category. building
  • Town. Sardinia town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 98001613 - 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

1925 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Rider-Hopkins Farm and Olmstead Camp, surveyed 1960
Topographic sheet covering Rider-Hopkins Farm and Olmstead Camp, surveyed 1925

Fires near this property

75 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Rider-Hopkins Farm and Olmstead Camp between 1995 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined44
Arson/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning6
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
22 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Rider-Hopkins Farm and Olmstead Camp: 3 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
Fred Howe WellSaltPast Producer
K.R.Wilson No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Sardinia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spencer and Haley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Spencer and Haley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sardinia, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash 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
August 2009Flash FloodSardinia$100,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSardinia$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree which fell on and damaged a house.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindSardinia$15,000Local fire responders reported power poles and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindSardinia$15,000no account filed
September 2017Thunderstorm WindSardinia$8,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSardinia$500Large tree downed on roadway.
July 2021Flash FloodSardinia-Flash flooding was reported on Genesee Road in Sardinia.
June 2022HailSardinia-no account filed
June 2022HailSardinia-no account filed
May 2017HailSardinia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

Listed places nearby

4 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
Sardinia Old Town Hall1.4 miles2008
East Hill Historic District7.5 miles2015
US Post Office-Springville8.0 miles1989
Baptist Church of Springville, The8.0 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001613 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Erie CountyAll 283 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.