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One of 34 National Register listings published here for Allegany County · listed in 2025 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
The Village of Wellsville East Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1926.
The listing
- Address. Roughly Bounded by Genesee Pkwy; Bolivar Rd.; Coats St.; Johnson St.; E. Genesee St.; O'Connor St.; Scott Ave.; Wheeler Place; Windover E. &W.; and E. Dyke St., Wellsville, 14895
- When was it listed? January 2025
- Category. district
- Town. Wellsville town
- National Register reference number. 100011345 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
96 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of The Village of Wellsville East Historic District between 1999 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 10 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 | 47 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 3 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 28 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 27 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 19 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 28 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 451 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 451 specimens collected within 10 miles of The Village of Wellsville East Historic District between 1870 and 1973: 416 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 11 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hazzard, A. L. Moldenke, A. P. Garber 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Phragmidium subcorticium (Schrank) G.Winter | 1925 | Elrene Crandall | |
 | Puccinia veratri (DC.) Duby | 1931 | H. H. Whetzel | Wooded hillside along main highway |
 | Clitocybe cartilaginea (Bull.) Bres. | 1934 | W. F. Wilson | |
 | Salix bebbiana Sarg. | 1870 | A. P. Garber | Andover |
| Gloeosporium Desm. & Mont., 1849 | 1883 | A.B. Seymour | Granville. | |
 | Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763 | 1888 | De Alton Saunders | Vandermark Creek |
 | Spiraea alba Du Roi | 1889 | De Alton Saunders | Andover |
 | Polygonum cilinode Michx. | 1890 | DeAlton Saunders | Independence |
 | Chordeiles minor (J.R.Forster, 1771) | 1898 | Harry Wilber | Scio |
 | Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1898 | Harry Wilber | Scio |
 | Megaceryle alcyon (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1898 | C. H. Munson | Scio |
 | Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1918 | Arthur Wright | Scio |
All 451 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of The Village of Wellsville East Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelbert King No.1 Well | Salt | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
43 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wellsville, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 27 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 4 hail, 2 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Wellsville | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Wellsville | $250,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $150,000 | no account filed |
| January 2017 | Flood | Wellsville | $25,000 | Genesee River at Wellsville crested at 11.11' at 9:15 PM EST on January 12. Flood stage is 11 feet. |
| March 2007 | Flood | Wellsville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Wellsville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| October 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Flash Flood | Wellsville | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree which damaged fence. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $15,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $15,000 | Law enforcement reported trees wires down. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $15,000 | Emergency management report numerous trees down. |
| August 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Wellsville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $10,000 | Several reports of trees and wires downed in Wellsville. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $10,000 | The television media reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down. |
| November 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $10,000 | Emergency Management reported several large trees down. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $5,000 | Multiple reports of trees downed in Wellsville. |
| September 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $5,000 | Thunderstorms produced high winds and torrential rains during the afternoon and evening hours. The strong thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. Scattered power outages were reported. The torrential rains caused some poor drainage flooding. In Olean, underpasses were flooded with waist-deep water. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Wellsville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $2,000 | Trees were down in Wellsville. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $1,000 | Trees were reported down. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $500 | Tree downed on South Hill Road. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $500 | Tree down in Wellsville. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Wellsville | - | Flooding reported on O Connor Road. |
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Wellsville | - | Reports of numerous roads flooding and roads closed in Wellsville. |
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Wellsville | - | Portion of Traux Road washed out, Funland Skate Center inundated with waters, flooding on Trapping Brook Road and North Broad Street in Wellsville. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Wellsville | - | Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Wellsville | - | Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
7 surveysUnited 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.
- 1926 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500 - 5 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
- 1965 USGS Wellsville South quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Wellsville Erie Depot | 0.1 miles | 1987 |
 | US Post Office-Wellsville | 0.1 miles | 1989 |
| Pink House, The | 0.6 miles | 2021 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011345 in Record Group 79. |
| Allegany County | All 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.