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William Taylor House

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

From the record

“William Taylor House is a historic home located at Middleport in Niagara County, New York. The main block was built about 1830, and is a two-story, L-shaped Medina sandstone dwelling in the Greek Revival style with a side wing.”

Wikipedia article William Taylor House (Middleport, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Niagara 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Taylor, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 97 S. Main St., Middleport, 14105
  • When was it listed? December 2012
  • Category. building
  • Town. Royalton town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 12000998 - 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

88 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of William Taylor House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural11
Smoking8
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of William Taylor House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Medina Sandstone Quarry, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this property

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middleport, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2012Thunderstorm WindMiddleport$10,000The fire service reported wires down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMiddleport$10,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindMiddleport$10,000no account filed
September 2018Thunderstorm WindMiddleport$2,000Trees and wires reported down in the Town of Hartland.
July 2020Flash FloodMiddleport-Widespread flash flooding was reported in Middleport, including on Main, Vernon, and State streets.

Every storm recorded in Niagara 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000998 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Niagara CountyAll 99 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.