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Photograph of Salisbury Center Grange Hall
Photograph by dougtone (Doug Kerr), CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Salisbury Center Grange Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Salisbury Center Grange Hall is a historic Grange Hall located at Salisbury Center in Herkimer County, New York. It was built in 1899 and occupied by the Salisbury Center Grange No. 624 since 1929.”

Wikipedia article Salisbury Center Grange Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer 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. 2550 NY 29, Salisbury Center, 13454
  • When was it listed? February 1999
  • Category. building
  • Town. Salisbury town
  • National Register reference number. 99000056 - 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

74 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Salisbury Center Grange Hall between 2001 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Salisbury Center Grange Hall: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Salisbury MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this property

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salisbury Center, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 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 1997Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center$6,000no account filed
February 1997Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center$4,000no account filed
June 2014LightningSalisbury Center$1,000A spotter reported that lightning downed a tree across Eammonsburg Road in Salisbury Center.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-A 911 call center operator reported trees down along Spruce Lake Road north of Salisbury.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-A 911 call center operator reported trees and wires down along Curtiss Road near Salisbury.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-Local fire department reported a tree down in Salisbury, NY.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-A local fire department reported a downed tree blocking Mang Road near Curtiss Road.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-A local fire department reported a tree and wires down on Irondale Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-A tree was downed on McClure Road near State Route 29A in the Town of Stratford.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-Numerous trees and wires were downed along a path of County Route 29A between Red School Road and Seeley Road near the Town of Stratford. Some of the trees were reported snapped 15 feet above the ground. Trees were all reported down in the same direction, suggesting straight-line wind damage occurred. The damage started in eastern Herkimer County and ended across northwestern Fulton County.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-Trees were downed at Lake View Drive and Spruce Lake Road.
November 2019FloodSalisbury Center-The Route 29 bridge over Spruce Creek was closed due to flooding.
November 2019FloodSalisbury Center-The Route 29A bridge over the East Canada Creek was closed due to flooding.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-A trained spotter reported wires down on Barnes Road.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-Tress and wires were downed on Peck Road in the town of Salisbury due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-Numerous trees were reported down throughout Salisbury Center as a result of thunderstorm winds. Many roads were closed as a result of the downed trees.
September 2011HailSalisbury Center-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm approximately 1 mile west of Stratford.
August 2011Flash FloodSalisbury Center-Route 29A between Stratford and Salisbury Center was reported closed due to flooding between Case Road and Route 29.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-A tree was reported down and blocking a portion of Route 29 in Salisbury Center due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-An emergency manager reported that trees and power lines were blown down along Route 29A in the vicinity of Red School House road near Salisbury Center. Pea-sized hail occurred with the storm.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-An emergency manager reported that 3 trees were blown down in a cemetary on Emmonsburgs Road near Salisbury Center.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSalisbury Center-Trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Herkimer County

Maps showing this location

12 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
Augustus Frisbie Houseunder 500 feet1999
Salisbury Center Covered Bridge0.1 miles1972
US Post Office-Dolgeville3.0 miles1988
Alfred Dolge Hose Co. No. 1 Building3.0 miles1994
Breckwoldt-Ward House3.4 miles2005
Menge House Complex3.4 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000056 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Herkimer CountyAll 74 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.