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One of 27 National Register listings published here for Genesee County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Oakfield High School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 8 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.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 1 North Pearl Street, Oakfield, 14125
- When was it listed? August 2024
- Category. building
- Town. Oakfield town
- National Register reference number. 100010613 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
84 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Oakfield High School between 1999 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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 | 52 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 21 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 13 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 31 August 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Oakfield High School: 7 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakfield Gypsum Products Corp. Mine | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Plant | ||
| Oakfield Mine | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Oakfield Mine | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Pheonix Gypsum Company Mine | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| U.S. Gypsum Company Mine | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Shaft | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Shaft | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Shaft | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Shafts | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakfield, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakfield | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakfield | $15,000 | Thunderstorm wind downed numerous trees on East Shelby Road. |
| December 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Oakfield | $15,000 | Law enforcement reported downed trees blocking Albion Road. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakfield | $15,000 | no account filed |
| January 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakfield | $12,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakfield | $10,000 | no account filed |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakfield | $5,000 | Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakfield | $4,000 | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakfield | $2,000 | Numerous trees were reported down. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakfield | $1,000 | Trees and wires were reported down. |
Maps showing this location
8 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 Medina quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
- 1950 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Oakfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Oakfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Batavia Veterans Administration Hospital | 5.1 miles | 2012 |
 | Mount Pleasant | 5.2 miles | 1984 |
 | Holland Land Office | 6.1 miles | 1966 |
 | Genesee County Courthouse Historic District | 6.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Genesee County Courthouse | 6.3 miles | 1973 |
 | Batavia Club | 6.4 miles | 1973 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010613 in Record Group 79. |
| Genesee County | All 27 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.