Clarendon Stone Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Clarendon Stone Store, also known as the Old Stone Store or the Copeland Store, is an historic commercial building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Located in the hamlet of Clarendon, in the town of Clarendon, New York, the building sits at the corner of New York State Route 31A and New York State Route 237.”
Wikipedia article Clarendon Stone Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Orleans County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 16301 E. Lee Rd., Clarendon, 14470
When was it listed? May 2012
Category. building
Town. Clarendon town
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 12000258 - 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

107 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Clarendon Stone Store between 2001 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 42 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
Arson/incendiarism	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Debris and open burning	15
Natural	10
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2014	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
21 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orleans County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Clarendon Stone Store: 3 producers, 3 past producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Holly Quarry and Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Barre Sand, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Brockport Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Clarendon Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Holly Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Manning Peat Bog Prospects	Lead, Zinc	Prospect
Mcnall Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarendon, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 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
September 1998	Hail	Clarendon	$100,000	no account filed
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarendon	$15,000	Law enforcement report wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Powerline Road.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarendon	$500	A tree was reported down at route 237 and Lake Road.

Every storm recorded in Orleans 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.

1897 USGS Albion quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1944 USGS Holley quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Albion quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Holley quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
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
Hillside Cemetery	2.4 miles	2013
Odd Fellows Hall	2.9 miles	2015
Stevens-Sommerfeldt House	3.4 miles	2015
Fancher World War II Memorial	3.6 miles	2022
Mt. Albion Cemetery	5.6 miles	1976
Skinner-Tinkham House	6.6 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000258 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.