Knights of the Maccabees Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Knights of the Maccabees Hall, also known as Cheshire Meeting Hall, is a historic meeting hall located at Cheshire, Ontario County, New York. It was built in 1898, and is a 1/1/2-story, rectangular, frame building with a front-gable roof and clad in clapboard siding.”
Wikipedia article Knights of the Maccabees Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Ontario County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 4270 NY 21, Cheshire, 14424
When was it listed? June 2013
Category. building
Town. Canandaigua town
National Register reference number. 13000371 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

148 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Knights of the Maccabees Hall between 1995 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 26 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	60
Debris and open burning	26
Arson/incendiarism	26
Smoking	15
Natural	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ontario County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Knights of the Maccabees Hall: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Natural Gas, 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
Amelia Smith Well	Salt, Natural Gas	Past Producer
B.Case No.1 Well	Salt, Natural Gas	Past Producer
Town of Bristol Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Town of Bristol Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
A.Henish Well	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ontario County

Storms near this property

5 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cheshire, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheshire	$12,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheshire	$2,000	A home weather station recorded a wind gust of 86 MPH, consistent with radar velocities at the time. Downed trees were reported in a nearby yard.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheshire	$1,500	Tree downed on wires on State Route 21 near Wells Curtice Road.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheshire	$500	Tree downed on Ketchum Road.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Cheshire	-	Smith Road flooded and impassable.

Every storm recorded in Ontario County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1900 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Canandaigua Lake quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Canandaigua Lake quadrangle1:24000 - 4 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
William W. Gorham House	3.1 miles	2024
George and Addison Wheeler House	3.3 miles	2005
Bristol Center Methodist Episcopal Church	3.3 miles	2022
Brigham Hall	4.3 miles	1984
Marshall House	4.3 miles	1984
Thaddeus Chapin House	4.4 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000371 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ontario County	All 78 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.