Photograph by Batavia VA Medical Center, Public domain. Via
Wikimedia Commons.
Batavia Veterans Administration Hospital
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“Batavia Veterans Administration Hospital is a historic hospital and national historic district located at Batavia in Genesee County, New York. The district includes 15 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 1 contributing structure, and 3 contributing objects.”
Wikipedia article Batavia Veterans Administration Hospital, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 27 National Register listings published here for Genesee County · listed in 2012 · category: District.
National Register reference number.12000160- 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.
Fires near this property
201 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Batavia Veterans Administration Hospital
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 17 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
107
Natural
28
Smoking
22
Debris and open burning
18
Arson/incendiarism
17
Equipment and vehicle use
8
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
10 workings within 5 miles of Batavia Veterans Administration Hospital: 8 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Batavia, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 8 flood, 4 flash flood.
The reports record 4 deaths. 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.
A tornado touched down in a corn field in Batavia and moved northeast. The tornado tore the roof off a home and destroyed the attached garage. The roof was carried about 0.25 mile. As the tornado crossed Route 5, it lifted a delivery van into the air and dropped it onto an oncoming tractor trailer. Both drivers were killed instantly. The tornado continued moving northeast, briefly lifting over a field. At its second touchdown, the tornado uprooted several trees in a circular fashion. It then uprooted several more large trees which fell onto a house. As scattered path of damage continued northeast where additional damage occurred to a house and barn. Telephone poles were also snapped along the damage path. (M41V) (M47V)
EF-0 tornado confirmed by NWS Storm Survey in the Town of Darien and Town of Alexander. Maximum winds were 75 mph. Path length was 1 mile. Maximum width was 50 yards.
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.
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.
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.
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