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Photograph of Gladden Windmill
Photograph by Pubdog, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Gladden Windmill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1922.

From the record

“Gladden Windmill is an historic windmill formerly located on Pigeon Valley Road in Napoli, Cattaraugus County, New York. The windmill was built in 1890 and is a well-preserved example of a vertical wind turbine built during the 19th century.”

Wikipedia article Gladden Windmill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Cattaraugus County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Pigeon Valley Rd., Napoli, 14719
  • When was it listed? July 1973
  • Category. structure
  • Town. Napoli town
  • National Register reference number. 73001167 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

26 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Gladden Windmill between 2001 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 May 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
2 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gladden Windmill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Little Valley S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this property

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Napoli, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 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 2000Flash FloodNapoli$200,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNapoli$10,000A tree was reported downed onto a house.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNapoli$10,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindNapoli$8,000Thunderstorms winds downed trees.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindNapoli$2,000A few trees downed in the Town of Napoli.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNapoli$1,000Trees were reported down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNapoli$500A tree was downed onto Pigeon Valley Road.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindNapoli$500A tree was reported down.

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
Cattaraugus County Memorial and Historical Building5.0 miles2025
US Post Office-Little Valley5.1 miles1989
Randolph Historic District6.6 miles2012
Cattaraugus Village Commercial Historic District6.8 miles2014
Leon United Methodist Church7.4 miles2000
Leon Grange No. 7957.5 miles2014

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73001167 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.