Lima Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Lima Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Lima in Livingston County, New York. The district encompasses 21 commercial, religious, civic, and residential properties in the historic core of the incorporated village of Lima and centered on the Four Corners business district.”
Wikipedia article Lima Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 25 buildingss, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1881--1885 & 1818--1870 Rochester St., Lima Presbyterian Church, 7304--7312 & 7303--7315 E. Main St., Lima, 14485
When was it listed? November 1987
Category. district
Town. Lima town
National Register reference number. 87002042 - 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

89 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Lima Village Historic District between 2000 and 2019, burning about 146 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined	29
Arson/incendiarism	28
Natural	9
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
2 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Lima Village Historic District: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Limestone, General, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
General Crushed Stone Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Honeoye Falls Well	Salt	Prospect
Rochester Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Bloomfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bloomfield Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Connors Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Connors Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

21 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lima, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Lima	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lima	$12,000	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lima	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lima	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lima	$10,000	The Livingston County emergency manager reported trees and wires down.
April 2017	Flood	Lima	$10,000	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Lima	$10,000	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lima	$2,000	Multiple trees downed.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lima	$2,000	Multiple trees downed.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lima	$2,000	Trees and power lines were reported down.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lima	$2,000	Trees and power lines were reported down.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Lima	-	Water rescues occurred between Avon and Lima.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lima	-	Several trees downed and damage to a garage.
August 2020	Heavy Rain	Lima	-	A trained spotter reported 2.25 inches of rainfall in two hours.
August 2020	Heavy Rain	Lima	-	A trained spotter reported 2.47 inches of rainfall.
April 2025	Hail	Lima	-	no account filed
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Lima	-	no account filed
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Lima	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Lima	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	South Lima	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	South Lima	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1901 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1934 USGS Honeoye Falls quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Honeoye Falls quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Honeoye Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Honeoye Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1983 USGS Canandaigua 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
Harden House	under 500 feet	1989
J. Franklin Peck House	0.1 miles	1989
William Harmon House	0.1 miles	1989
Cargill House	0.1 miles	1989
Hillcrest	0.2 miles	1980
Stanley House	0.2 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002042 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston County	All 92 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.