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Photograph of West End Historic District
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West End Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1925.

From the record

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Then and now

1925 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering West End Historic District, surveyed 1960
Topographic sheet covering West End Historic District, surveyed 1925

Fires near this property

61 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of West End Historic District between 1995 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest RangersTHOMAS CORNERS FIRE
5 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of West End Historic District: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Springville WellSaltPast Producer
Hagerer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
John L. Beny PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
John L. Beny Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springville, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSpringville$15,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSpringville$15,000no account filed
September 2017Thunderstorm WindSpringville$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSpringville$10,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSpringville$10,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSpringville$10,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSpringville$10,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSpringville$8,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 1999HailSpringville$5,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindSpringville$2,000A tree fell on wires in Springville.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSpringville$1,000A tree was downed on powerlines.
October 2024HailSpringville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100002187 in Record Group 79.
Erie CountyAll 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.