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Waltrous Peck House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Ontario County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Peck, Waltrous, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 8814 Wesley Rd., West Bloomfield, 14469
When was it listed? March 2017
Category. building
Town. West Bloomfield town
National Register reference number. 100000756 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

67 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Waltrous Peck House between 2000 and 2019, burning about 116 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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	24
Arson/incendiarism	20
Debris and open burning	13
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
7 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 July 2016	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Ontario County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Waltrous Peck House: 7 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Natural Gas. 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
Callister No.1 Well	Salt, Natural Gas	Past Producer
Abbey No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
D.Curran No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Weaver No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Bloomfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bloomfield Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Connors Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Connors Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
East Bloomfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
East Bloomfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ontario 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.

1901 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1942 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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
Ontario and Livingston Mutual Insurance Office	2.7 miles	2008
John and Mary Dickson House	2.7 miles	2008
East Bloomfield Historic District	4.8 miles	1989
St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church Complex	5.1 miles	1992
St. Peter's Episcopal Church	5.5 miles	1996
George and Addison Wheeler House	7.7 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100000756 in Record Group 79.
Ontario County	All 78 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.