Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“Dick Block is an historic commercial building located at North Tonawanda in Niagara County, New York. Built in 1891, it is a three-story, three-bay, red-brick building in the Romanesque Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Dick Block, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 99 National Register listings published here for Niagara County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.12000957- 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
545 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 545 fires within 5 miles of Dick Block, The
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 225 acres in total. 105 started naturally. 52 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
267
Natural
105
Smoking
64
Arson/incendiarism
52
Debris and open burning
20
Equipment and vehicle use
19
Misuse of fire by a minor
7
Recreation and ceremony
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Railroad operations and maintenance
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 National Weather Service names
North Tonawanda, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 heavy snow, 2 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.
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.
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.
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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