Photograph of Fort Niagara — Photograph by Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Casemates

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1678. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1950.

From the record

“Fort Niagara, also known as Old Fort Niagara, is a fortification originally built by New France to protect its interests in North America, specifically control of access between the Niagara River and Lake Ontario, the easternmost of the Great Lakes. The fort is on the river's eastern bank at its mouth on Lake Ontario.”
Wikipedia article Fort Niagara, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Niagara County · listed in 1966 · category: Structure · built in 1678 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss, 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. N of Youngstown on NY 18, Youngstown, 14174
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. structure
Town. Porter town
When was it built? 1678
National Register reference number. 66000556 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

44 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Casemates between 2003 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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	36
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	2

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
7 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Youngstown, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 1 hail. 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 2019	Flood	Youngstown	$1,000,000	no account filed
May 2019	Flood	Youngstown	$1,000,000	no account filed
July 2019	Flood	Youngstown	$500,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Youngstown	$250,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Youngstown	$150,000	no account filed
August 2019	Flood	Youngstown	$25,000	no account filed
October 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Youngstown	$10,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Youngstown	$5,000	A tree was downed on a vehicle and a home in Youngstown.
June 2008	Hail	Youngstown	$5,000	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Youngstown	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Niagara County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1950 USGS Ft Niagara quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Ft Niagara quadrangle1:24000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1980 USGS Ft Niagara quadrangle1:25000
1986 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Fort Niagara Light	0.1 miles	1984
John Carter Farmstead	0.8 miles	2007
St. John's Episcopal Church	0.9 miles	1990
Frontier House	6.3 miles	1974
First Presbyterian Church of Lewiston and Lewiston Village Cemetery	6.5 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000556 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Niagara County	All 99 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.
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.