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Depew High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 591 Terrace Blvd., Depew, 14210
  • When was it listed? August 2016
  • Category. building
  • City. Buffalo city
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 16000593 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1894 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Depew High School, surveyed 1960
Topographic sheet covering Depew High School, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

1,093 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,093 fires within 5 miles of Depew High School between 2000 and 2020, burning about 403 acres in total. 184 started naturally. 140 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/undetermined625
Natural184
Arson/incendiarism140
Smoking75
Equipment and vehicle use21
Debris and open burning21
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Depew High School: 4 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Gold. 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
Federal Crushed Stone Quarry & MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Williams Gold Refin./ Buffalo, N.Y.GoldUnknown
Eastern Limestone OperationStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Federal Crushed Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bethlehem Steel/ Lackawana, N.Y.IronUnknown
Hanna Furnace Corp/ Buffalo, N.Y.IronUnknown
Republic Steel/ Buffalo, N.Y.IronUnknown

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Depew, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 hail, 3 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
January 1999Heavy SnowDepew$100,000no account filed
March 2020Thunderstorm WindDepew$50,000Tree fell onto a house on Ransom Rd.
June 2008HailDepew$50,000no account filed
June 2008HailDepew$50,000no account filed
August 1999Flash FloodDepew$50,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindDepew$30,000Ham radio operators reported numerous large trees snapped and uprooted in Depew.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindDepew$20,000Siding torn off a building and signs down at Walden Rd and Transit Rd.
December 2013FloodDepew$20,000Cayuga Creek at Lancaster crested 8.14 feet at 19:30 EST on 12/21/2013. Flood Stage is 8 feet.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindDepew$15,000Thunderstorm winds knocked over a large tree onto a house in Depew.
August 2008Flash FloodDepew$15,000no account filed
July 1998Flash FloodDepew$15,000no account filed
April 2017FloodDepew$10,000no account filed
August 2008HailDepew$10,000no account filed
July 2016LightningDepew$9,000no account filed
April 2011FloodDepew$5,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindDepew$500A tree was downed in Lancaster.
June 2025Heavy RainDepew-Rainfall amount reported was 1.10 inches.
July 2021Heavy RainDepew-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 16000593 in Record Group 79.
Erie CountyAll 283 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.