Elias H. Geiger House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Geiger House, also known as the Geiger-Weidman House, is a historic home located at Ossian near Dansville in Livingston County, New York. It is a large two story wood frame Italianate style building built in 1866 or 1867 by master carpenter Elias H.”
Wikipedia article Elias H. Geiger House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Geiger, Elias H., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 10693 Geiger Rd., Dansville, 14437
When was it listed? April 2006
Category. building
Town. Ossian town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 06000267 - 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

127 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Elias H. Geiger House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 156 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 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	76
Arson/incendiarism	13
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
25 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	2.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
31 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
31 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
28 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Elias H. Geiger House: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dansville Well	Salt	Past Producer
	Gruschow No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dansville, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 19 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 1998	Flash Flood	Dansville	$250,000	no account filed
July 1998	Flash Flood	Dansville	$250,000	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$50,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$50,000	no account filed
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$40,000	Winds tore off portion of the Dansville High School roof.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$35,000	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds. A tree fell on a house in Dansville.
August 2009	Flash Flood	Dansville	$25,000	no account filed
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$20,000	Local television showed a tree down on a house.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Morey Avenue.
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$15,000	no account filed
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$12,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Park Avenue.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$12,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Hartman Road.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$11,000	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
July 2009	Hail	Dansville	$10,000	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Dansville	$10,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$10,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Dansville	$10,000	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$10,000	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$10,000	no account filed
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$8,000	no account filed
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$2,000	Multiple trees and wires were reported down.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$1,000	Trees down onto Park Avenue.
August 2021	Heavy Rain	Dansville	-	Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.
May 2017	Hail	Dansville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston County

Maps showing this location

9 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 Wayland quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Wayland quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Dansville quadrangle1:31680
1942 USGS Dansville quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Pioneer Farm	2.6 miles	1970
English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Dansville	3.2 miles	2013
US Post Office-Dansville	3.3 miles	1988
Dansville Downtown Historic District	3.3 miles	2007
Dansville Library	3.4 miles	1977
William Hartman Farmstead	4.1 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000267 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston County	All 92 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.