Lake Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“The Lake Street Historic District is located along the west side of that street, state highway NY 19, in downtown Bergen, New York, United States. It contains several of Romanesque Revival style buildings from the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the early 20th.”
Wikipedia article Lake Street Historic District (Bergen, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Genesee County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 11 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10 and 12 S. Lake St. & 11--27 N. Lake St., Village of Bergen, 14416
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Town. Bergen town
National Register reference number. 85001953 - 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

68 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Lake Street Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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	42
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
1 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire 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.

1899 USGS Bergen quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1935 USGS Churchville quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Churchville quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Churchville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Rochester 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
North Bergen Presbyterian Church	4.5 miles	2022
Gifford-Walker Farm	4.8 miles	1980
Marion Steam Shovel	6.4 miles	2008
Machpelah Cemetery	7.1 miles	2007
Augustus S. Tyron House	7.5 miles	2013
St. Mark's Episcopal Church & Cemetery	7.6 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001953 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Genesee County	All 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.