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One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 2020 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Our Mother of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church Complex
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 3688 South Park Ave. and 15 Oakwood Ave., Blasdell, 14219
- When was it listed? December 2020
- Category. district
- Town. Hamburg town
- National Register reference number. 100005914 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1894 to 1960The 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.
Fires near this property
640 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 640 fires within 5 miles of Our Mother of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church Complex between 2000 and 2020, burning about 235 acres in total. 98 started naturally. 98 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 | 383 |
| Natural | 98 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 98 |
| Smoking | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Our Mother of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church Complex: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bethlehem Steel/ Lackawana, N.Y. | Iron | Unknown |
Storms near this property
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blasdell, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2000 | Flash Flood | Blasdell | $250,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blasdell | $300 | Landspout. |
Maps showing this location
11 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.
- 1894 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
- 1948 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Buffalo SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Buffalo SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Buffalo SE 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady of Victory National Shrine and Basilica Historic District | 1.9 miles | 2024 | |
 | Cazenovia Park-South Park System | 3.0 miles | 1982 |
 | Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Light | 3.3 miles | 2007 |
 | South Buffalo North Side Light | 3.4 miles | 1983 |
| St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church Complex | 3.7 miles | 2017 | |
| South Side Bank of Buffalo | 3.8 miles | 2021 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005914 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.