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Photograph of Cattaraugus Village Commercial Historic District
Photograph by Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cattaraugus Village Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1923.

From the record

“Cattaraugus Village Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Cattaraugus in Cattaraugus County, New York. The district encompasses 19 contributing buildings in the central business district of Cattaraugus.”

Wikipedia article Cattaraugus Village Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 19 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 9-52 Main, 1-17 Washington, 14 Waverly Sts., Cattaraugus, 14719
  • When was it listed? January 2014
  • Category. district
  • Town. New Albion town
  • National Register reference number. 13001113 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Cattaraugus Village Commercial Historic District between 1995 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning8
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSOUTH BRANCH
12 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 1995Smoking25 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
2 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot 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 Cattaraugus Village Commercial Historic District: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
C.H.Richey No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
J.P.Strickland No.3 WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this property

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cattaraugus, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 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
May 2014Flash FloodCattaraugus$250,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$14,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$10,000Several reports of trees and wires downed in Cattaraugus.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$10,000Law Enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$10,000Law Enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$10,000no account filed
October 2017Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$8,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2008HailCattaraugus$8,000no account filed
January 2026Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$2,000Trees and powerlines downed in the town of Cattaraugus.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
April 1995HailCattaraugus$2,000no account filed
April 2022Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$1,000A tree and powerlines were down on Leon Road.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$1,000Tree reported down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$500Tree down on route 353 between 42nd Street and Broadway.
August 2021Heavy RainCattaraugus-Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.
August 2021Heavy RainCattaraugus-Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.

Every storm recorded in Cattaraugus 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
First Congregational Church of Otto2.7 miles1999
Cattaraugus County Memorial and Historical Building6.5 miles2025
US Post Office-Little Valley6.7 miles1989
Gladden Windmill6.8 miles1973
East Otto Union School7.1 miles2004
Leon Grange No. 7958.0 miles2014

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13001113 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cattaraugus CountyAll 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.