Solvay Public Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“The Solvay Public Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Solvay in Onondaga County, New York. It was built between 1903 and 1905, and is a one-story, buff-colored brick building on a high basement.”
Wikipedia article Solvay Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 178 National Register listings published here for Onondaga County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 615 Woods Rd., Solvay, 13209
When was it listed? October 2007
Category. building
Town. Geddes town
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 07001124 - 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

478 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 478 fires within 5 miles of Solvay Public Library between 2000 and 2020, burning about 310 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 88 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	237
Arson/incendiarism	88
Natural	38
Smoking	33
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Debris and open burning	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this property

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Solvay, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
May 2004	Hail	Solvay	$50,000	3.00 inch hail.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Solvay	$20,000	Much of the roof of West End Bar and Grille at the New York State Fairgrounds was peeled off. Time was approximated on radar.
August 2014	Flash Flood	Solvay	$15,000	Significant urban flash flooding was occuring. Hiawatha Boulevard was flooded, and the on-ramp to Interstate 690 was impassable.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Solvay	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and caused minor damage to a small building.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Solvay	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Solvay	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down wires which caught a tree on fire.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Solvay	$1,000	Several trees were blown down.
July 2014	Hail	Solvay	-	Hail was accompanied by 50-55 MPH winds.
May 2019	Hail	Solvay	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Solvay	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Solvay	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Onondaga 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.

1895 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1939 USGS Syracuse West quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1939 USGS Syracuse West quadrangle1:31680
1947 USGS Syracuse West quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Syracuse West quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Syracuse West quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Pozzi Building	0.3 miles	2025
West Brothers Knitting Company	1.0 miles	2014
St. Patrick's Church Complex	1.3 miles	2012
Harriet May Mills House	1.7 miles	2002
Lipe-Rollway Corporation Building	1.8 miles	2018
O.M. Edwards Building	1.8 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001124 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Onondaga County	All 178 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.
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.