Pioneer Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Pioneer Cemetery, also known as Evans Center Cemetery, is a historic cemetery located at Evans Center, Erie County, New York, USA. It consists of 10 to 11 rows of burials, with the oldest dating to 1810.”
Wikipedia article Pioneer Cemetery (Evans, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 2012 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. W. side of N. Main St. between Gold St. & Beach Rd., Evans Center, 14006
When was it listed? January 2012
Category. site
Town. Evans town
National Register reference number. 11000997 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1899 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Pioneer Cemetery, surveyed 1960

Topographic sheet covering Pioneer Cemetery, surveyed 1899

Fires near this property

184 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Pioneer Cemetery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 25 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	90
Natural	26
Debris and open burning	26
Arson/incendiarism	25
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evans Center, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash 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
May 2014	Flash Flood	Evans Center	$50,000	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Evans Center	$15,000	no account filed
September 1997	Tornado (F0)	Evans Center	$15,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Evans Center	$10,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Evans Center	$2,000	Multiple trees downed in the town of Evans.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Evans Center	$1,000	Trees and wire downed.
February 2019	Flood	Evans Center	$1,000	Route 5 was closed in Evans in both directions due to flooding of the Big Sister Creek.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Evans Center	$500	A tree was downed.
April 2002	Hail	Evans Center	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie 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.

1899 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1944 USGS Angola quadrangle1:31680
1960 USGS Angola quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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-Angola	1.1 miles	1988
First Church of Evans Complex	2.3 miles	2006
Graycliff	5.1 miles	1998
Gamel Hexadecagon Barn	7.7 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000997 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Erie County	All 283 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.
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.