G.A.R. Memorial Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Memorial Hall is a historic multi-purpose community hall located at Hunt in Livingston County, New York. It was built about 1880 as home to the local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic.”
Wikipedia article G.A.R. Memorial Hall (Hunt, New York), 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 objectss, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St., Hunt, 14846
When was it listed? September 2006
Category. building
Town. Portage town
National Register reference number. 06000888 - 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

71 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of G.A.R. Memorial Hall between 2001 and 2017, burning about 66 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 19 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	26
Arson/incendiarism	19
Natural	16
Debris and open burning	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
12 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 July 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Livingston 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 G.A.R. Memorial Hall: 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
Nunda Well	Salt	Past Producer
Nunda Highway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nunda Village Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Portage Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunt, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2010	Flood	Hunt	$40,000	The Genesee River at Portageville crested at 21.67 feet at 1:45AM EDT on December 2nd.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hunt	$10,000	Law enforcement reported power poles down.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hunt	$500	A tree was downed.

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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1905 USGS Nunda quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Nunda quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Nunda quadrangle1:31680
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
1972 USGS Nunda quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1983 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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
Edgerley	2.2 miles	1980
Union Block	3.5 miles	2000
Nunda Village Historic District	3.6 miles	2025
Elmwood	4.0 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000888 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.