Entranceway at Main Street at Darwin Drive

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Entranceway at Main Street at Darwin Drive is a suburban residential subdivision entranceway and street furniture built about 1927 by developer Charles S. It is located on Main Street in the town of Amherst within Erie County.”
Wikipedia article Entranceway at Main Street at Darwin Drive, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 2009 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St. at Darwin Dr., Amherst, 14226
When was it listed? July 2009
Category. structure
Also known as. Suburban Development of Buffalo, New York MPS
Town. Amherst town
National Register reference number. 09000554 - 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.

Then and now

1894 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Entranceway at Main Street at Darwin Drive, surveyed 1960

Topographic sheet covering Entranceway at Main Street at Darwin Drive, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

895 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 895 fires within 5 miles of Entranceway at Main Street at Darwin Drive between 2000 and 2020, burning about 344 acres in total. 164 started naturally. 59 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	490
Natural	164
Smoking	99
Arson/incendiarism	59
Recreation and ceremony	26
Debris and open burning	22
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Entranceway at Main Street at Darwin Drive: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	North and South Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amherst, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 2008	Hail	Amherst	$50,000	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Amherst	$50,000	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Amherst	$50,000	no account filed
August 1994	Tornado (F0)	Amherst	$50,000	no account filed
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	$50,000	no account filed
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	$10,000	no account filed
July 2005	Lightning	Amherst	$10,000	no account filed
June 2002	Flash Flood	East Amherst	$10,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	East Amherst	$10,000	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Amherst	$5,000	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	East Amherst	$5,000	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	East Amherst	$5,000	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Amherst	$5,000	no account filed
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	East Amherst	$1,000	Trees were reported down.
June 2016	Hail	East Amherst	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie 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.

1894 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1901 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
1948 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Buffalo NE quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Buffalo NE quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Buffalo NE quadrangle1:24000
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo 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
Entranceway at Main Street at Roycroft Boulevard	0.1 miles	2005
Entranceways at Main Street at Lamarck Drive and Smallwood Drive	0.2 miles	2005
Entranceway at Main Street at Lafayette Boulevard	0.9 miles	2009
Reformed Mennonite Church, Former	1.0 miles	2003
Entranceway at Main Street at LeBrun Road	1.0 miles	2009
Entranceway at Main Street at High Park Boulevard	1.1 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000554 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Erie County	All 283 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.