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Dole House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“Dole House is a historic home located at Lockport in Niagara County, New York. It is a two-story stone structure built in 1840 in the Federal style by Isaac Dole, an early settler of Lockport.”
Wikipedia article Dole House (Lockport, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 99 National Register listings published here for Niagara County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
Also known as. Stone Buildings of Lockport, New York MPS
Town. Lockport town
Architectural style. Federal architecture, Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number.03000485- 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
262 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 262 fires within 5 miles of Dole House
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 42 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
136
Arson/incendiarism
42
Smoking
33
Natural
20
Debris and open burning
11
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
7
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Recreation and ceremony
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
3 workings within 5 miles of Dole House: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 unknown.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Lockport, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 24 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 8 flash flood, 2 tornado.
The reports record 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.
A tornado touched down in Lockport in Niagara County. The tornado was on the ground only for short lengths along the path. Damage was mainly confined to one property where three large trees were downed and windows were blown out of a garage.
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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