Main Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at McGraw in Cortland County, New York. The district includes 33 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure.”
Wikipedia article Main Street Historic District (McGraw, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Cortland County · listed in 1986 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly on Main St. between South and Washington Sts., McGraw, 13101
When was it listed? September 1986
Category. district
Town. Cortlandville town
National Register reference number. 86002773 - 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

96 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Main Street Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 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	43
Debris and open burning	13
Smoking	11
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
8 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
13 September 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not 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 Main Street Historic District: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Compagni Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mcconnell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Polkville Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Polkville Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cortland County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McGraw, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 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
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McGraw	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	McGraw	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McGraw	$2,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cortland County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1903 USGS Cortland quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1944 USGS Mc Graw quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Mc Graw quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Auburn 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
Presbyterian Church of McGraw	0.1 miles	1986
Cortland County Poor Farm	3.1 miles	1982
Hatheway Homestead	4.0 miles	1978
Benton-Sherwood House	4.2 miles	2026
Cortland County Courthouse	4.3 miles	1974
First Presbyterian Church Complex	4.3 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002773 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cortland County	All 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.