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The Little Genesee Schoolhouse-Genesee District No. 1 School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1925.

From the record

One of 34 National Register listings published here for Allegany County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

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. 8351 State Route 417, Little Genesee, 14754
  • When was it listed? January 2025
  • Category. building
  • Town. Genesee town
  • National Register reference number. 100011343 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of The Little Genesee Schoolhouse-Genesee District No. 1 School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning13
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
21 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 May 2015Debris and open burning3.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acrePennsylvania Division of Forest Fire ProtectionLOW
6 May 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 May 1995Arson/incendiarism25 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
18 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 April 2014Arson/incendiarism2.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 86 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 86 specimens collected within 10 miles of The Little Genesee Schoolhouse-Genesee District No. 1 School between 1915 and 1967: 57 Animalia, 28 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Robins, Charles Robins; John New; Robert Dickerman, D. B. Ward and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Gallinula galeata, not of this specimenGallinula galeata (Lichtenstein & Mhc, 1818)1915not recordedGermantown Twp. Germantown.
A photograph of the species Xylaria Hill, not of this specimenXylaria Hill ex Schrank, 17891917E. E. Honey
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1926John GreelyAllen Brook, trib. to Knight Cr.
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1926John GreelyAllen Brook, trib. to Knight Cr.
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii Girard, 18501926John GreelyAllen Brook, trib. to Knight Cr.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191926John GreelyAllen Brook, trib. to Knight Cr.
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atronasus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atronasus (Hermann, 1804)1926John GreelyAllen Brook, trib. to Knight Cr.
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1926John GreelyAllen Brook, trib. to Knight Cr.
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1938Sherman BishopWolf Cr.
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus (Cope, 1865)1938Sherman BishopWolf Cr.
A photograph of the species Schizachne purpurascens, not of this specimenSchizachne purpurascens (Torr.) Swallen1939R. T. Clausenrocky woods on western slope of Alma Hill
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1940Roman PfeifferDodge Cr., 2 mi. NE of Bedford Corners

All 86 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of The Little Genesee Schoolhouse-Genesee District No. 1 School: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bolivar PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Allegany County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Genesee, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLittle Genesee$20,000Law enforcment reported thunderstorm winds downed trees and tree limbs.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLittle Genesee$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindLittle Genesee$8,000no account filed
May 2013HailLittle Genesee$5,000no account filed
July 2025Flash FloodLittle Genesee-Flash flooding reported on State Route 417 in the Town of Genesee.
September 2024Flash FloodLittle Genesee-Route 417 is underwater near Horse Run Road intersection.
September 2024Flash FloodLittle Genesee-Flooding occurred on 417 near Little Genesee Library.
July 2023Flash FloodLittle Genesee-Flash flooding reported on County Rd. 5 in the Town of Genesee.
May 2012HailLittle Genesee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allegany 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

2 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
Bolivar Free Library3.6 miles2003
Ceres School3.6 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100011343 in Record Group 79.
Allegany CountyAll 34 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.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • 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.