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One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.
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Beaver Falls Grange Hall No. 554
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1911.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 9577 Main St., Beaver Falls, 13620
- When was it listed? December 2015
- Category. building
- Town. Croghan town
- National Register reference number. 15000852 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
59 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Falls Grange Hall No. 554 between 1995 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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 | 31 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 22 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 20 August 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 14 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 July 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Beaver Falls Grange Hall No. 554: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Croghan Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Croghan Plant | Granite | Past Producer | Granite | |
| Croghan Town Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Harper Ferry Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lehman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lyndaker Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| New Bremen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver Falls, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver Falls | $35,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver Falls | $11,000 | Thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening hours producing damaging winds and small hail. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines resulting in scattered power outages. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver Falls | $10,000 | A tree fell onto a house with with wires down as well. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver Falls | $8,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver Falls | $6,000 | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver Falls | $2,000 | Trees and wires reported down. |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited 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.
- 1911 USGS Lowville quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1913 USGS Lowville quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Croghan quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowville & Beaver River Railroad Historic District | under 500 feet | 2024 | |
| Harry and Molly Lewis House | 0.3 miles | 2012 | |
| Lowville & Beaver River Railroad Historic District | 0.4 miles | 2024 | |
| Lowville & Beaver River Railroad Historic District | 0.4 miles | 2024 | |
| Lowville & Beaver River Railroad Historic District | 0.7 miles | 2024 | |
| Lowville & Beaver River Railroad Historic District | 1.3 miles | 2024 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000852 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Lewis County | All 50 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.