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Photograph of Entranceway at Main Street at Roycroft Boulevard
Photograph by TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Entranceway at Main Street at Roycroft Boulevard

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Entranceway at Main Street at Roycroft Boulevard is a suburban residential subdivision entranceway built in 1918. It is on Main Street in the hamlet of Snyder, New York, in the town of Amherst within Erie County.”

Wikipedia article Entranceway at Main Street at Roycroft Boulevard, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Main St., jct. with Roycroft Blvd., Amherst, 14226
  • When was it listed? December 2005
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Suburban Development of Buffalo, New York MPS
  • Town. Amherst town
  • National Register reference number. 05001378 - 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

1894 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Entranceway at Main Street at Roycroft Boulevard, surveyed 1960
Topographic sheet covering Entranceway at Main Street at Roycroft Boulevard, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

952 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 952 fires within 5 miles of Entranceway at Main Street at Roycroft Boulevard between 2000 and 2020, burning about 361 acres in total. 172 started naturally. 72 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/undetermined516
Natural172
Smoking107
Arson/incendiarism72
Recreation and ceremony27
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Entranceway at Main Street at Roycroft Boulevard: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
North and South QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amherst, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008HailAmherst$50,000no account filed
June 2008HailAmherst$50,000no account filed
June 2008HailAmherst$50,000no account filed
August 1994Tornado (F0)Amherst$50,000no account filed
April 1993Thunderstorm WindAmherst$50,000no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindAmherst$15,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindAmherst$10,000no account filed
July 2005LightningAmherst$10,000no account filed
June 2002Flash FloodEast Amherst$10,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindEast Amherst$10,000no account filed
June 2008HailAmherst$5,000no account filed
July 2003HailEast Amherst$5,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindEast Amherst$5,000no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodAmherst$5,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Amherst$1,000Trees were reported down.
June 2016HailEast Amherst-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05001378 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Erie CountyAll 283 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.