Naples South Main Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Ontario County · listed in 2022 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Portions of James, South Main, Reed, Sprague, and Weld Sts., Naples, 14512
When was it listed? November 2022
Category. district
Town. Naples town
National Register reference number. 100008347 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Naples South Main Street Historic District between 1992 and 2017, burning about 193 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
25 September 2017	Smoking	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 August 2001	Smoking	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
10 August 1997	Smoking	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
6 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 July 1993	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
8 June 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 June 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 May 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Every fire recorded in Ontario County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Naples South Main Street Historic District: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Monier Estate No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
	Wilcox Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ontario County

Storms near this property

24 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Naples, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
May 2004	Flash Flood	Naples	$6,000,000	no account filed
May 2014	Flood	Naples	$150,000	no account filed
May 2000	Flash Flood	Naples	$75,000	no account filed
January 1999	Heavy Snow	Naples	$75,000	no account filed
August 2005	Lightning	Naples	$50,000	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Naples	$25,000	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Naples	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines at the intersection of Routes 21 and 245.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Naples	$15,000	no account filed
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Naples	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
September 2010	Flood	Naples	$10,000	no account filed
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Naples	$10,000	no account filed
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Naples	$10,000	no account filed
May 2004	Flash Flood	Naples	$10,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Naples	$10,000	no account filed
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Naples	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed on Eelpot Road between Maxfield Road and Route 21.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Naples	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Naples	$1,500	Tree downed on wires on State Route 21 near Bristol Spring Road.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Naples	$500	Tree downed.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Naples	$500	A tree was downed.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Naples	-	Route 245 closed in Naples with high water flowing over roadway.
August 2021	Heavy Rain	Naples	-	Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.
August 2021	Heavy Rain	Naples	-	Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.
October 2021	Flood	Naples	-	Flooding was reported on Route 245.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Naples	-	Trees were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Ontario County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1900 USGS Naples quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1903 USGS Naples quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1913 USGS Naples quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Naples quadrangle1:31680
1942 USGS Naples quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
Morgan Hook and Ladder Company	0.2 miles	1995
Central Naples Historic District	0.4 miles	2024
Naples Memorial Town Hall	0.4 miles	1996
Naples Viniculture Historic District	0.9 miles	2022
Fairview Cemetery	1.1 miles	2023
Ephraim Cleveland House	1.1 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100008347 in Record Group 79.
Ontario County	All 78 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.