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Levi J. and Frances A. Pierce House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Chautauqua County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 objectss, 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Pierce, Levi J. and Frances A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 21 Pearl St, Forestville (Town of Hanover), 14062
  • When was it listed? May 2022
  • Category. building
  • Town. Hanover town
  • National Register reference number. 100007688 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

105 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Levi J. and Frances A. Pierce House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined58
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning12
Smoking6
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
School No. 77.5 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100007688 in Record Group 79.
Chautauqua CountyAll 50 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.