Cattaraugus County Memorial and Historical Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1923.

From the record

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Cattaraugus 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. 302 Court Street, Little Valley, 14755
When was it listed? May 2025
Category. building
Town. Little Valley town
National Register reference number. 100011780 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

17 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Cattaraugus County Memorial and Historical Building between 2002 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	2
Smoking	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
6 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 July 2020	Natural	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
14 July 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 May 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
30 April 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus 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 Cattaraugus County Memorial and Historical Building: 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
	Little Valley S&G Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Rickert Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Valley, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Valley	$10,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Valley	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Little Valley	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cattaraugus County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1923 USGS Cattaraugus quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1938 USGS Cattaraugus quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Cattaraugus quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1963 USGS Cattaraugus quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Olean 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
US Post Office-Little Valley	0.2 miles	1989
Gladden Windmill	5.0 miles	1973
Cattaraugus Village Commercial Historic District	6.5 miles	2014
Ellicottville Town Hall	6.7 miles	1973
Ellicottville Historic District	6.8 miles	1991
Jefferson Street Cemetery	6.9 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011780 in Record Group 79.
Cattaraugus County	All 39 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.