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Photograph of Genesee Street Hill-Limestone Plaza Historic District
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Genesee Street Hill-Limestone Plaza Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“The Genesee Street Hill-Limestone Plaza Historic District is a historic district in Fayetteville, New York that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The western border of the district is Limestone Creek.”

Wikipedia article Genesee Street Hill-Limestone Plaza Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 178 National Register listings published here for Onondaga County · listed in 1982 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

241 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Genesee Street Hill-Limestone Plaza Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 269 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined135
Smoking30
Arson/incendiarism28
Natural22
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
8 September 2008Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNew York Forest RangersMILL RUN FIRE
4 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Genesee Street Hill-Limestone Plaza Historic District: 16 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium, 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
Jamesville QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Jamesville QuarryCalciumProducer
Jamesville Quarry and MillCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Minoa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Taylor Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jamesville Quarry & Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kinsella PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kinsella QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Gypsum QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unnamed Gypsum QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this property

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fayetteville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2000: 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
May 2000HailFayetteville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Onondaga County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

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
Levi Snell House0.4 miles1987
Charles Estabrook Mansion0.6 miles1996
Manlius Village Historic District2.5 miles1973
Christ Church and Manlius Village Cemeteries2.7 miles2007
Lustron House Westchester Deluxe Model 023.8 miles2026
Dr. John Ives House4.0 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003392 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Onondaga CountyAll 178 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.