Caledonia Fish Hatchery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Caledonia Fish Hatchery, also known as "Spring Brook" and the Seth Green State Hatchery, is a historic fish hatchery and national historic district located at Caledonia in Livingston County, New York. The district encompasses five contributing buildings, one contributing site, five contributing structures and two contributing buildings associated with the oldest fish hatchery in the Western Hemisphere.”
Wikipedia article Caledonia Fish Hatchery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 16 North St., Caledonia, 14423
When was it listed? February 2015
Category. building
Town. Caledonia town
National Register reference number. 12000310 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

93 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Caledonia Fish Hatchery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 14 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	32
Debris and open burning	17
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	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 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2020	Natural	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
17 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
15 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 August 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Caledonia Fish Hatchery: 18 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
North Leroy Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Salt Well	Salt	Past Producer
Leroy Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
North Leroy Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caledonia, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 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
January 1998	Flash Flood	Caledonia	$25,000	no account filed
July 2017	Flash Flood	Caledonia	$20,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$18,000	no account filed
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$15,000	Law enforcement report that a metal shed had been blown over by thunderstorm winds.
April 2004	Hail	Caledonia	$15,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$15,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$15,000	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Caledonia	$15,000	no account filed
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$10,000	Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$10,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$10,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$10,000	no account filed
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$5,000	no account filed
January 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$2,000	Trees and powerlines downed in Caledonia.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$2,000	Trees and wires were reported down.
January 1998	Flash Flood	Caledonia	$1,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Caledonia	$1,000	no account filed
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$500	A large tree was down across Maxwell Station Road.
September 2013	Hail	Caledonia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1904 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1950 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Canandaigua 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
Clark-Keith House	0.7 miles	1998
Caledonia Library	0.8 miles	2007
Caledonia House Hotel	0.8 miles	2001
Hall's Opera Block	7.6 miles	2006
Avon Five Arch Bridge	7.6 miles	2012
Aaron Barber Memorial Building	7.7 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000310 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston County	All 92 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.