Wolcott Square Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Wolcott Square Historic District is a national historic district located at the Village of Wolcott in Wayne County, New York. The district includes the First Baptist Church, First Presbyterian Church, the Village Hall, the 1.9-acre (0.77 ha) village green, a bandstand, and a public fountain.”
Wikipedia article Wolcott Square Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. W. Main, Park, and New Hartford Sts., Wolcott, 14590
When was it listed? May 2001
Category. district
Town. Wolcott town
National Register reference number. 00001692 - 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

123 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Wolcott Square Historic District between 2001 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 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	88
Arson/incendiarism	14
Recreation and ceremony	9
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
27 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Wolcott Square Historic District: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
North of Wolcott	Iron	Past Producer
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Highway Dept Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Highway Dept Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Highway Dept Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolcott, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2004	Flash Flood	Wolcott	$500,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$50,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$20,000	Law enforcement reported power poles and wires down in Wolcott.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
April 2006	Hail	Wolcott	$15,000	no account filed
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$15,000	no account filed
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$12,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$11,000	no account filed
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	North Wolcott	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
September 2013	Hail	North Wolcott	$10,000	no account filed
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$10,000	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$10,000	no account filed
November 1996	Flash Flood	Wolcott	$10,000	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	North Wolcott	$5,000	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	North Wolcott	$5,000	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Wolcott	$5,000	no account filed
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$2,000	Trees and wires downed in the town of Wolcott.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$2,000	Trees and wires downed in Wolcott.
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$2,000	Trees and powerlines were reported downed.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$1,000	Trees downed in Wolcott.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolcott	$1,000	Trees were reported down.
May 2017	Hail	Wolcott	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1902 USGS Clyde quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1943 USGS Wolcott quadrangle1:31680
1953 USGS Clyde quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Wolcott quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Listed places nearby

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Roe Cobblestone Schoolhouse	2.2 miles	2008
	Methodist Episcopal Church of Butler	4.2 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001692 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 40 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.