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Hamburg Main Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Hamburg Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Hamburg in Erie County, New York. The district encompasses 62 contributing buildings along two blocks along Main Street in the village of Hamburg.”
Wikipedia article Hamburg Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Address. 11 through 235 Main St., Hamburg, 14075
When was it listed? December 2012
Category. district
Town. Hamburg town
National Register reference number. 12000997 - 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

1905 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Hamburg Main Street Historic District, surveyed 1960

Topographic sheet covering Hamburg Main Street Historic District, surveyed 1905

Fires near this property

340 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 340 fires within 5 miles of Hamburg Main Street Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. 53 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	211
Natural	53
Arson/incendiarism	42
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2014	Smoking	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
6 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hamburg Main Street Historic District: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Kennedy's Pit No. 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Boston Valley Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Boston Valley Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamburg, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
October 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamburg	$35,000	no account filed
August 2000	Flash Flood	Hamburg	$15,000	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamburg	$10,000	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamburg	$10,000	no account filed
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	East Hamburg	$5,000	Multiple trees snapped in a yard on Davis Street.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamburg	$5,000	Thunderstorms which moved onshore from Lake Erie produced damaging winds and spawned a weak tornado. The tornado mainly uprooted trees, one of which fell onto a house.
June 2006	Hail	Hamburg	$5,000	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	East Hamburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1905 USGS Eden quadrangle1:62500
1907 USGS Eden quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1944 USGS Eden quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo 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
Lustron House Westchester Deluxe Model M02 #01310	3.1 miles	2023
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Station	5.1 miles	2007
Johnson-Jolls Complex	5.3 miles	1980
Our Mother of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church Complex	5.6 miles	2020
Graycliff	7.0 miles	1998
Our Lady of Victory National Shrine and Basilica Historic District	7.4 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000997 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.
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.