Childs Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Orleans County · listed in 2025 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Portions of Ridge Road and Oak Orchard Road, Childs, 14411
When was it listed? February 2025
Category. district
Also known as. Cobblestone Architecture of New York State MPS
Town. Gaines town
National Register reference number. 100011442 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

147 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Childs Historic District between 2001 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 44 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	60
Arson/incendiarism	44
Smoking	14
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orleans 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 Childs Historic District: 2 producers. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit No 5	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Huckell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this property

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Childs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 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
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Childs	$15,000	Officials reported trees and wires downed on Route 104.

Every storm recorded in Orleans County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1897 USGS Oak Orchard quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1949 USGS Kendall quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Kent 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 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
Cobblestone Historic District	0.2 miles	1993
Bacon-Harding Farm	0.8 miles	2013
Tousley-Church House	2.3 miles	2002
North Main-Bank Streets Historic District	2.3 miles	1994
Gaines District No. 2 Cobblestone Schoolhouse	2.5 miles	2017
Orleans County Courthouse Historic District	2.8 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011442 in Record Group 79.
Orleans County	All 30 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.