Rochester, New York

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• Monroe County

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1895 1984

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 128 shown

• Susan B. Anthony HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• George Eastman HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Alcoa Care-free Homelisted 2010
• Andrews Street Bridgelisted 1984
• Aquinas Institutelisted 1989
• Arvine Heights Historic Districtlisted 2015
• Bevier Memorial Buildinglisted 1973
• Brick Presbyterian Church Complexlisted 1992
• Bridge Square Historic Districtlisted 1984
• Brown's Race Historic Districtlisted 1989
• Adam Brown Blocklisted 1985
• Browncroft Historic Districtlisted 2004

Every listing in Monroe County

Rochester grew from 210,565 to 211,328 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1895 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1912 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1920 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1931 USGS Rochester East quadrangle1:24000
• 1935 USGS Rochester East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1952 USGS Rochester East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Rochester East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,591 fires within 5 miles of Rochester between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,650 acres in total. 171 started naturally. 293 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Arnett
• Barnard
• Cobbs Hill
• Irondequoit
• Lincoln Park
• Uptonville

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rochester: 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silver, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rochester in 46 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 28 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 7 hail, 2 flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Monroe County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 962684. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.