Leon Grange No. 795

Built in 1903. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Leon Grange No. 795, also known as the Aiken-Silvernail House, is a historic home located at Leon in Cattaraugus County, New York. It was built in 1903-1904, and is a two-story, three bay by four bay, frame building.”
Wikipedia article Leon Grange No. 795, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Cattaraugus County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1903.

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. NY 62 near Leon-New Albion Rd., Leon, 14726
When was it listed? January 2014
Category. building
Town. Leon town
When was it built? 1903
National Register reference number. 13001089 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Leon Grange No. 795 between 1993 and 2019, burning about 48 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	25
Arson/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	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
14 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 June 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 May 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Leon Grange No. 795: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Conewango Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	William Marsh No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this property

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leon, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2015	Flash Flood	Leon	$150,000	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Leon	$50,000	no account filed
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Leon	$15,000	no account filed
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Leon	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Leon	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Leon	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees down on Riga Road by thunderstorm winds.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Leon	$10,000	Law enforcement reported numerous trees and powerlines down.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Leon	$10,000	no account filed
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Leon	$8,000	Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Leon	$5,000	Trees and wires were downed in Leon.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Leon	$2,000	Multiple reports of trees down were received.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Leon	$500	Large pine tree down across Cherry Creek Road.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	East Leon	$500	Tree downed across road.

Every storm recorded in Cattaraugus 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.

1900 USGS Cherry Creek quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1941 USGS Cherry Creek quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Cherry Creek quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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
Leon United Methodist Church	0.2 miles	2000
Gladden Windmill	7.5 miles	1973
Cattaraugus Village Commercial Historic District	8.0 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13001089 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cattaraugus County	All 39 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.