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Photograph of Little York Pavilion
Photograph by Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Little York Pavilion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Little York Pavilion, also known as Dwyer Memorial County Park, Main Pavilion, is an historic trolley park pavilion located at Preble in Cortland County, New York. It was built about 1906, with later additions and modifications, and is a two-story Stick/Eastlake style structure, rectangular at the core, with surrounding verandahs and a jutting pavilion at each corner.”

Wikipedia article Little York Pavilion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Cortland County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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. S of Preble off NY 281, Preble
  • When was it listed? July 1979
  • Category. building
  • Town. Preble town
  • National Register reference number. 79001575 - 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

70 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Little York Pavilion between 2002 and 2019, burning about 46 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism20
Debris and open burning12
Natural9
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
11 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 July 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Cortland County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Little York Pavilion: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Homer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Homer Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Homer PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Homer PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Cortland County

Storms near this property

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Preble, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2021Flash FloodPreble$15,000Multiple roads are flooded in Preble.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindPreble$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down several trees and poles. US-11 was closed as a result.
July 2017Flash FloodPreble$6,000Water was rapidly flowing across the intersection of Preble Road and U.S. Route 11. Minor flooding was elsewhere in, and near, the Village of Preble.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindPreble$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and powerlines near Otisco Valley Road and Masters Road.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPreble$5,000Trees and a wire were blown down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPreble$2,000Tree was blown down blocking Route 11.
June 2021HailPreble-A strong thunderstorm produced 1 inch hail.

Every storm recorded in Cortland 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
First Presbyterian Church1.8 miles2002
US Post Office-Homer4.7 miles1989
Water, Wall, and Pine Streets Lenticular Truss Bridges5.2 miles1977
Old Homer Village Historic District5.3 miles1973
Glenwood Cemetery5.8 miles2019
Cortland County Poor Farm5.8 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79001575 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cortland CountyAll 31 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.