Union Block

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Union Block is a historic commercial building located in the village of Nunda in Livingston County, New York. It is a two-story, 77 by 105 foot, brick and stone structure built in 1882-1883 and designed to draw commerce and investment back to Nunda after a period of economic stagnation.”
Wikipedia article Union Block (Nunda, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 38-42 State St., Nunda, 14517
When was it listed? February 2000
Category. building
Town. Nunda town
National Register reference number. 00000092 - 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

77 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Union Block between 2001 and 2019, burning about 70 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 11 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	34
Natural	21
Arson/incendiarism	11
Debris and open burning	6
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Union Block: 3 producers, 2 past 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Nunda Well	Salt	Past Producer
Nunda Highway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nunda Village Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Portage Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

15 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nunda, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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
August 2003	Flash Flood	Nunda	$10,000,000	no account filed
July 2000	Flash Flood	Nunda	$40,000	no account filed
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	$15,000	Television reports showed numerous large tree limbs down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	$15,000	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Nunda	$11,000	no account filed
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and flipped a carport.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	$10,000	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Nunda	$8,000	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	$5,000	Many trees were down north of Nunda.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	$5,000	no account filed
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed in Nunda.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	$500	A tree was downed.
May 2025	Flash Flood	Nunda	-	Keshequa Creek overflowed its banks, with water up to several houses on Water Street in the Town of Nunda.

Every storm 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 Nunda quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Nunda 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 Nunda quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1983 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

5 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
Nunda Village Historic District	0.1 miles	2025
Elmwood	0.6 miles	2015
Edgerley	1.6 miles	1980
G.A.R. Memorial Hall	3.5 miles	2006
First Presbyterian Church of Tuscarora	5.2 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000092 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.
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.