Marion Steam Shovel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Marion Steam Shovel, also known as the Le Roy Steam Shovel, is a historic Model 91 steam shovel manufactured by the Marion Steam Shovel and Dredge Company of Marion, Ohio. It is located on Gulf Road in the Town of Le Roy, New York, United States.”
Wikipedia article Marion Steam Shovel (Le Roy, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Genesee County · listed in 2008 · category: Structure.

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 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Gulf Rd., LeRoy, 14482
When was it listed? February 2008
Category. structure
Town. Le Roy town
National Register reference number. 08000038 - 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

94 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Marion Steam Shovel between 2000 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 12 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	48
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	12
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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
8 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2020	Natural	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
15 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Marion Steam Shovel: 11 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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	Recorded
C.Davis No.1 Well	Salt, Natural Gas	Past Producer
North Leroy Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Abandoned Gypsum Workings	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Abandoned Gysum Workings	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Leroy Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Leroy Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
North Leroy Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lake Road Gravel Products	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee 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.

1904 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1944 USGS Le Roy quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Le Roy quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1951 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:62500 - 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
Machpelah Cemetery	2.5 miles	2007
LeRoy House and Union Free School	2.8 miles	1997
St. Mark's Episcopal Church & Cemetery	2.8 miles	2021
Augustus S. Tyron House	2.8 miles	2013
St. Mark's Episcopal Church & Cemetery	2.9 miles	2021
US Post Office-Le Roy	2.9 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000038 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Genesee County	All 27 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.