Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
From the record
“Tioga Centre General Store is a historic general store located at 3019 Rt 17 C Tioga Center in Tioga County, New York. It was built about 1849 and is a two-story, frame structure on an irregular coursed stone foundation.”
Wikipedia article Tioga Centre General Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 57 National Register listings published here for Tioga County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.02001709- 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
1903 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19031992
Fires near this property
77 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Tioga Centre General Store
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 6 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
28
Debris and open burning
24
Natural
9
Arson/incendiarism
6
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Smoking
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
14 workings within 5 miles of Tioga Centre General Store: 7 past producers, 6 producers, 1 prospect.
6 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Tioga Center, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
Severe flash flooding closed numerous roads and bridges. A railroad bridge was almost to the point of collapse, shutting down a major railroad line in the Southern Tier of New York. A pedestrian bridge was washed away and a trailer park was evacuated. Numerous structures were involved in the flooding.
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.
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.
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.
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