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Photograph of Holley Village Historic District
Photograph by Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Odd Fellows Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Holley Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Holley, Orleans County, New York. The district encompasses 40 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing object in the central business district of the village of Holley.”

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

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Orleans County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

129 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Odd Fellows Hall between 2002 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 50 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
Arson/incendiarism50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Debris and open burning13
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Orleans County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Odd Fellows Hall: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Limestone, General. 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
Holly Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Clarendon QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Mcnall QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Holly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holley, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHolley$15,000Law enforcement report wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindHolley$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindHolley$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindHolley$10,000no account filed
April 1996Flash FloodHolley$5,000no account filed
May 2013HailHolley-no account filed
June 2009HailHolley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orleans 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

5 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
Hillside Cemetery0.5 miles2013
Clarendon Stone Store2.9 miles2012
Fancher World War II Memorial3.6 miles2022
Stevens-Sommerfeldt House5.8 miles2015
Mt. Albion Cemetery6.8 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 15000539 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orleans CountyAll 30 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.