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One of 99 National Register listings published here for Niagara County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Payne Avenue High School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 621 Payne Ave., North Tonawanda, 14120
- When was it listed? March 2019
- Category. building
- City. North Tonawanda city
- National Register reference number. 100003431 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
466 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 466 fires within 5 miles of Payne Avenue High School between 2000 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 96 started naturally. 48 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 | 219 |
| Natural | 96 |
| Smoking | 55 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 48 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 9 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 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 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Storms near this property
29 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Tonawanda, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 heavy snow, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1999 | Heavy Snow | North Tonawanda | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | North Tonawanda | $50,000 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Heavy Snow | North Tonawanda | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $35,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | North Tonawanda | $35,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $23,000 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $20,000 | Law enforcement reported a tree on a house downed by thunderstorm winds in North Tonawanda. |
| February 2019 | Flash Flood | North Tonawanda | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | North Tonawanda | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | North Tonawanda | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $10,000 | Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | North Tonawanda | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | North Tonawanda | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | North Tonawanda | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $9,000 | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $5,000 | Numerous reports of trees and wires down were received from North Tonawanda and Wheatfield. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | North Tonawanda | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $2,000 | Trees and powerlines were reported down. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $2,000 | Trees and wires reported down. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda | $1,000 | Trees and wires were reported down onto Gilmore Avenue. |
Maps showing this location
12 surveysUnited 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.
- 1897 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500
- 1899 USGS Niagara quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
- 1900 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
- 1948 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Tonawanda East quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Tonawanda East quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Tonawanda East quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascension Roman Catholic Church Complex | 0.5 miles | 2016 | |
 | Allan Herschell Carousel Factory | 0.7 miles | 1985 |
| Sweeney Estate Historic District | 0.8 miles | 2020 | |
 | Carnegie Library | 1.0 miles | 1995 |
 | Herschell-Spillman Motor Company Complex, The | 1.1 miles | 2013 |
 | Dick Block, The | 1.1 miles | 2012 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003431 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.
- 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.