Westerly

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Westerly is a historic home located at the hamlet of Piffard in Livingston County, New York. It was built in 1850 by a local builder named McBride.”
Wikipedia article Westerly (Piffard, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Chandler Rd., Piffard, 14533
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. building
Town. York town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 74001255 - 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

169 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Westerly between 2000 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 49 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	64
Arson/incendiarism	49
Smoking	26
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Westerly: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Halite, Potassium, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Highway Dept. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Reynolds Quarry	Flagstone	Producer
Old Retsof Shaft	Halite, Potassium, Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer	1884
Retsof Mine	Halite, Potassium, Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer	1884
Fuller Shaft	Salt	Producer
Geo.F.Hudson Well	Salt	Past Producer
J.J.Gilmore No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Livingston Salt Co.Well No.1	Salt	Past Producer
Phoenix Salt Well	Salt	Past Producer
Retsof Shaft & Mill	Salt	Plant

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Piffard, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2017: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2017	Flash Flood	Piffard	$30,000	no account filed
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Piffard	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.

Every storm recorded in Livingston County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1904 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1944 USGS Geneseo quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Geneseo quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1951 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Geneseo Historic District	2.7 miles	1977
Main Street Historic District	2.7 miles	1977
Main Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)	2.7 miles	1985
Homestead, The	2.9 miles	1974
National Hotel	3.2 miles	2004
Sweet Briar	3.5 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001255 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston County	All 92 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.