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Photograph of Pittsford Village Historic District
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Pittsford Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Pittsford Village Historic District is a national historic district located at the village of Pittsford in Monroe County, New York. The district encompasses 198 contributing elements on 107 properties.”

Wikipedia article Pittsford Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

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

The listing

Then and now

1895 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Pittsford Village Historic District, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Pittsford Village Historic District, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

670 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 670 fires within 5 miles of Pittsford Village Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 366 acres in total. 57 started naturally. 63 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/undetermined312
Smoking138
Arson/incendiarism63
Natural57
Debris and open burning44
Equipment and vehicle use25
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony7

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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2016Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2002Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pittsford Village Historic District: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Penfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mendon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mendon PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pittsford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pittsford PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Redman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Redman PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pittsford, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2007LightningPittsford1 hurtno account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindPittsford$1,200,000no account filed
July 1998Flash FloodPittsford$150,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPittsford$20,000Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down from thunderstorm winds near Pittsford. A power transformer was damage near South Main Street and Mile Post Lane.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindPittsford$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPittsford$15,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindPittsford$10,000Law enforcement received multiple reports of trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindPittsford$6,000no account filed
July 2004HailPittsford$5,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPittsford$1,500Tree and wires downed.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindPittsford$1,000A tree was reported down onto power lines near Jefferson and Eastview Terrance.
November 2025HailPittsford-Time estimated by radar.

Every storm recorded in Monroe County

Maps showing this location

13 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
Pittsford Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)under 500 feet2016
Phoenix Building0.1 miles1974
Adolph Lomb House0.3 miles1995
Hildreth-Lord-Hawley Farm0.4 miles1996
Thomas Youngs House0.8 miles1993
Oak Hill Country Club1.7 miles2023

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84002736 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe CountyAll 233 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.