Pultneyville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Pultneyville Historic District is a national historic district located at Pultneyville in Wayne County, New York. The district includes 35 properties containing 33 contributing primary structures and 18 contributing outbuildings.”
Wikipedia article Pultneyville Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Sections of Lake Rd. and Jay St., Pultneyville, 14589
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. district
Town. Williamson town
National Register reference number. 85002325 - 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

93 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Pultneyville Historic District between 2001 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 18 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	50
Arson/incendiarism	18
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pultneyville Historic District: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	No. 7 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Williamson	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pultneyville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2008	Hail	Pultneyville	$25,000	no account filed
August 2004	Lightning	Pultneyville	$15,000	no account filed
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Pultneyville	$5,000	Several trees and limbs downed.

Every storm recorded in Wayne County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1902 USGS Pultneyville quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1942 USGS Pultneyville quadrangle1:31680
1952 USGS Pultneyville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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
Gates Hall and Pultneyville Public Square	0.2 miles	2000
Isaac Shipley House	0.9 miles	2022
Brick Church Corners	6.4 miles	1974
Third Methodist Episcopal Church of Sodus	6.6 miles	2024
First Presbyterian Church of Ontario Center	7.1 miles	1998
Preston-Gaylord Cobblestone Farmhouse	8.0 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002325 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 40 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.