Photograph of Midway State Park — Photograph by Pubdog, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Midway Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Midway State Park, located in Maple Springs, New York, was established in 1898 by the Jamestown & Lake Erie Railway as a picnic ground. Today, it is recognized as the fifteenth-oldest continually operating amusement park in the United States, and the fifth-oldest remaining trolley park of the thirteen still operating in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Midway State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Chautauqua County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

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 12 buildingss, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 430, Maple Springs, 14712
When was it listed? March 2009
Category. district
Town. Ellery town
National Register reference number. 09000133 - 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

90 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Midway Park between 1995 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 18 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	41
Arson/incendiarism	18
Natural	12
Debris and open burning	9
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
19 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
11 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	GORDON FIRE
9 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
21 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
17 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua 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 Chautaqua quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1904 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1941 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Jamestown 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
Miller, Lewis, Cottage, Chautauqua Institution	2.3 miles	1966
Chautauqua Institution Historic District	2.4 miles	1973
Point Chautauqua Historic District	3.0 miles	1996
Pennsylvania Railroad Station	4.8 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000133 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chautauqua County	All 50 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.