Arcade Center Farm

Built in 1835 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1923.

From the record

“Arcade Center Farm is a historic home and farm complex in Arcade, Wyoming County, New York. The farmhouse is a Greek Revival-style frame structure built about 1835 with a main block and 1-story wings.”
Wikipedia article Arcade Center Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Wyoming County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1835, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

Address. 7298 NY 98, Arcade, 14009
When was it listed? April 2004
Category. building
Town. Arcade town
When was it built? 1835
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 04000290 - 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

63 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Arcade Center Farm between 2002 and 2019, burning about 38 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning	11
Natural	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 July 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Wyoming 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 Arcade Center Farm: 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
Fred Howe Well	Salt	Past Producer
K.R.Wilson No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Rules Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sardinia Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wyoming County

Storms near this property

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arcade, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 23 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 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
June 1998	Flash Flood	Arcade	$4,500,000	no account filed
July 1998	Flash Flood	Arcade	$250,000	no account filed
September 2000	Flash Flood	Arcade	$175,000	no account filed
August 2000	Flash Flood	Arcade	$75,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flash Flood	Arcade	$50,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$30,000	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$20,000	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$18,000	no account filed
December 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$15,000	Emergency Managment reported tree damage in Arcade.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees down.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$10,000	Numerous reports of trees and wires downed.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$10,000	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$10,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$10,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$8,000	no account filed
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Arcade.
May 2000	Hail	Arcade	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$3,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$2,000	A few trees downed on wires in Arcade.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$2,000	Trees were downed.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$2,000	Trees were snapped and uprooted on North Street.
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$1,000	Trees were reported downed onto a road.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$1,000	A tree fell and brought down power lines.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$1,000	Two trees were reported down.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	$500	Several large tree limbs were downed.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcade	-	Three to four trees downed in Arcade. One downed tree took out the service line to a house.

Every storm recorded in Wyoming 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.

1923 USGS Arcade quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1925 USGS Arcade quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Arcade quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

1 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
	Arcade and Attica Railroad	4.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000290 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wyoming County	All 26 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.