East Main Street Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“East Main Street Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Palmyra in Wayne County, New York, USA. The district encompasses Palmyra's downtown business area and contains two blocks of solid, brick 19th century commercial architecture.”
Wikipedia article East Main Street Commercial Historic District (Palmyra, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 51 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Between Clinton and William-Cuyler Sts., Palmyra, 14522
When was it listed? November 1974
Category. district
Town. Palmyra town
National Register reference number. 74001318 - 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

161 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of East Main Street Commercial Historic District between 2001 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 26 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	91
Arson/incendiarism	26
Debris and open burning	16
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 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
24 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of East Main Street Commercial Historic District: 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Blackmar's Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Highway Dept Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Palmyra Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Port Gibson Quarries	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Wayne County Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Winslow Heth Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palmyra, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 4 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
January 1998	Flash Flood	Palmyra	$100,000	no account filed
May 2000	Flash Flood	Palmyra	$50,000	no account filed
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Palmyra	$35,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down a large barn.
June 2008	Hail	Palmyra	$25,000	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Palmyra	$25,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Palmyra	$25,000	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	East Palmyra	$15,000	Law enforcement reported downed trees blocking roads.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Palmyra	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Palmyra	$15,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Palmyra	$15,000	no account filed
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Palmyra	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Palmyra	$10,000	Law enforcement received multiple reports of trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2008	Hail	Palmyra	$10,000	no account filed
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Palmyra	$8,000	no account filed
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Palmyra	$8,000	no account filed
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Palmyra	$5,000	Multiple reports of trees down were received from Palmyra and Macedon.
July 2011	Hail	Palmyra	$5,000	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Palmyra	$1,000	Trees fell into a creek.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Palmyra	$1,000	A large tree was down with power lines on Route 31.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	East Palmyra	$1,000	Several trees were reported down between Palmyra and Newark.
January 1998	Flash Flood	Palmyra	$1,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Palmyra	$1,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1899 USGS Palmyra quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1902 USGS Palmyra quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1943 USGS Palmyra quadrangle1:31680
1952 USGS Palmyra quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Rochester 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
Market Street Historic District	under 500 feet	1972
Palmyra Village Historic District	0.1 miles	2009
Zion Episcopal Church	0.2 miles	1996
Ambrose S. Lapham House	2.3 miles	2014
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Walworth	4.3 miles	2017
East Palmyra Presbyterian Church	4.4 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001318 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 40 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.