Dansville Library

Built in 1823 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Dansville Library is a historic library located at Dansville in Livingston County, New York. It is a large two story Neoclassical style frame structure.”
Wikipedia article Dansville Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1823, Neoclassical architecture.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 200 Main St., Dansville, 14437
When was it listed? September 1977
Category. building
Town. North Dansville town
When was it built? 1823
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 77000947 - 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

160 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Dansville Library between 2002 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 10 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	107
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	9
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
25 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	2.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
24 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
13 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Dansville Library: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
Dansville Well	Salt	Past Producer
Gruschow No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kennedy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dansville, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 19 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 1998	Flash Flood	Dansville	$250,000	no account filed
July 1998	Flash Flood	Dansville	$250,000	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$50,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$50,000	no account filed
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$40,000	Winds tore off portion of the Dansville High School roof.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$35,000	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds. A tree fell on a house in Dansville.
August 2009	Flash Flood	Dansville	$25,000	no account filed
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$20,000	Local television showed a tree down on a house.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Morey Avenue.
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$15,000	no account filed
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$12,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Park Avenue.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$12,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Hartman Road.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$11,000	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
July 2009	Hail	Dansville	$10,000	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Dansville	$10,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$10,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Dansville	$10,000	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$10,000	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$10,000	no account filed
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$8,000	no account filed
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$2,000	Multiple trees and wires were reported down.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Dansville	$1,000	Trees down onto Park Avenue.
August 2021	Heavy Rain	Dansville	-	Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.
May 2017	Hail	Dansville	-	no account filed

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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1902 USGS Wayland quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Wayland quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Dansville quadrangle1:31680
1942 USGS Dansville quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 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
Dansville Downtown Historic District	0.1 miles	2007
US Post Office-Dansville	0.2 miles	1988
English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Dansville	0.3 miles	2013
Pioneer Farm	0.8 miles	1970
William Hartman Farmstead	1.3 miles	2000
Engleside	2.9 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000947 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.