Chilton Avenue-Orchard Parkway Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Chilton Avenue-Orchard Parkway Historic District is a national historic district in Niagara Falls in Niagara County, New York. It encompasses 103 contributing buildings in a residential district built up between about 1899 and 1941.”
Wikipedia article Chilton Avenue-Orchard Parkway Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Niagara County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Portions of Chilton Ave and Orchard Parkway, Niagara Falls, 14305
When was it listed? August 2010
Category. district
City. Niagara Falls city
National Register reference number. 10000771 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1894 to 1995

The 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.

Topographic sheet covering Chilton Avenue-Orchard Parkway Historic District, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Chilton Avenue-Orchard Parkway Historic District, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

641 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 641 fires within 5 miles of Chilton Avenue-Orchard Parkway Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 314 acres in total. 77 started naturally. 80 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	328
Arson/incendiarism	80
Natural	77
Smoking	48
Equipment and vehicle use	45
Debris and open burning	32
Railroad operations and maintenance	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Other causes	1
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
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 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Chilton Avenue-Orchard Parkway Historic District: 4 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Graphite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Lead Industries/Niagara Falls, N.Y.	Zirconium	Unknown
Newark Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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

Every working recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this property

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Niagara Falls, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2007: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
July 2000	Lightning	Niagara Falls	4 hurt	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Niagara Falls	$1,000,000	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Niagara Falls	$500,000	no account filed
November 1999	Flash Flood	Niagara Falls	$500,000	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Niagara Falls	$500,000	no account filed
August 2001	Lightning	Niagara Falls	$200,000	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Niagara Falls	$35,000	no account filed
October 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Niagara Falls	$25,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Niagara Falls	$25,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Niagara Falls	$20,000	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Niagara Falls	$15,000	no account filed
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Niagara Falls	$10,000	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Niagara Falls	$8,000	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Niagara Falls	$5,000	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Niagara Falls	$5,000	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Niagara Falls	$5,000	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Niagara Falls	$5,000	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Niagara Falls	$5,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Niagara Falls	$1,000	no account filed
July 2003	Funnel Cloud	Niagara Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Niagara County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

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 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Niagara Falls Public Library	0.3 miles	1974
Main Street Historic District	0.3 miles	2021
Niagara Falls Armory	0.3 miles	1995
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church Complex	0.4 miles	2019
Niagara Falls City Hall	0.5 miles	2001
Park Place Historic District	0.5 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000771 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.