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One of 99 National Register listings published here for Niagara County · listed in 2017 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Niagara Power Project Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
The listing
- Address. 5777 Lewiston Rd. (Power Vista), Lewiston, 14305
- When was it listed? July 2017
- Category. district
- Town. Niagara town
- National Register reference number. 100001265 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1894 to 1995The ground this property stands on, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
835 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 835 fires within 5 miles of Niagara Power Project Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 442 acres in total. 97 started naturally. 122 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 | 424 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 122 |
| Natural | 97 |
| Smoking | 57 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 48 |
| Debris and open burning | 48 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 19 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.2 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 6 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Niagara Power Project Historic District: 4 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Graphite, Zirconium, Chromium, Abrasive. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead Industries/Niagara Falls, N.Y. | Zirconium | Unknown | ||
| Niagara Falls Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Niagara St0ne Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| SKW Alloys/ Niagara Falls, N.Y. | Iron, Manganese, Graphite | Producer | ||
| Special Abrasives/Niagara Falls, Ny | Abrasive | Unknown | ||
| Union Carbide/ Niagara Falls, N.Y. | Chromium, Graphite | Unknown | ||
| Great Lakes Carbon/Niagara Falls Ny | Graphite | Unknown |
Storms near this property
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewiston, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2004: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy snow, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $55,000 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Heavy Snow | Lewiston | $40,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Lewiston | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $12,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $8,000 | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $5,000 | A cold front crossed the area accompanied by severe thunderstorms. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. Scattered power outages were reported throughout the county. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $5,000 | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
12 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1894 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1896 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1900 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1901 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
- 1949 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:25000
- 1986 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:25000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church Complex | 2.3 miles | 2019 | |
 | Former Niagara Falls High School | 2.3 miles | 2002 |
| Main Street Historic District | 2.4 miles | 2021 | |
 | U.S. Customhouse | 2.5 miles | 1973 |
 | Oakwood Cemetery | 2.5 miles | 2014 |
| Schoellkopf Hall | 2.6 miles | 2023 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001265 in Record Group 79. |
| Niagara County | All 99 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.