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Photograph of Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District is located at the junction of New York state routes 5 and 237 in Stafford, New York, United States. It is a collection of six buildings of various types from the 19th century, one of which is the oldest house in Genesee County.”

Wikipedia article Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Genesee County · listed in 1976 · category: District.

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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. U.S. 5 and U.S. 237, Stafford, 14143
  • When was it listed? October 1976
  • Category. district
  • Town. Stafford town
  • National Register reference number. 76001220 - 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

101 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District between 2001 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined60
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning12
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District: 10 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Allen's Creek DepositGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Stafford MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
C.H.Ivison No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Lehigh Salt ShaftSaltPast Producer
Salt WellSaltPast Producer
Batavia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Batavia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Batavia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bethany PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Creek Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this property

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stafford, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 4 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
July 2012Flash FloodStafford$25,000no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindStafford$20,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindStafford$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and wires.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindStafford$4,000no account filed
October 2024Thunderstorm WindStafford$500Tree downed on road.

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Keeney House4.1 miles1979
First Presbyterian Church of Le Roy4.1 miles2014
Le Roy Historic District4.1 miles2017
US Post Office-Le Roy4.3 miles1989
Augustus S. Tyron House4.3 miles2013
St. Mark's Episcopal Church & Cemetery4.3 miles2021

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001220 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Genesee CountyAll 27 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.