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US Post Office-Lancaster

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“US Post Office - Lancaster is a historic post office building located at Lancaster in Erie County, New York. It was designed and built 1938-1939, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Lancaster, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 1989 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. US Post Office--Lancaster - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 5064 Broadway, Lancaster, 14086
When was it listed? May 1989
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
Town. Lancaster town
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88002340 - 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.

Then and now

1905 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering US Post Office-Lancaster, surveyed 1960

Topographic sheet covering US Post Office-Lancaster, surveyed 1905

Fires near this property

513 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 513 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Lancaster between 2000 and 2020, burning about 188 acres in total. 84 started naturally. 38 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	268
Natural	84
Smoking	66
Arson/incendiarism	38
Recreation and ceremony	18
Debris and open burning	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5

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 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Lancaster: 7 producers, 5 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Buffalo Quarry and Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Federal Crushed Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Federal Crushed Stone Quarry & Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Lancaster Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lancaster Quarry and Plant	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
North and South Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Genessee Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Genessee Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Jones Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lancaster Dredge E	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lancaster, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 6 flood, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1998	Hail	Lancaster	1 hurt, $15,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Lancaster	$75,000	no account filed
March 2007	Flood	Lancaster	$50,000	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$40,000	no account filed
December 2007	Flood	Lancaster	$20,000	no account filed
July 2017	Flood	Lancaster	$15,000	no account filed
January 1999	Flash Flood	Lancaster	$15,000	no account filed
November 2017	Flood	Lancaster	$10,000	Cayuga Creek at Lancaster crested at 9.43 feet at 3:00 AM on the 6th (Flood Stage is 8 feet).
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$10,000	Law enforcement reported power lines down.
January 2010	Flood	Lancaster	$10,000	no account filed
March 2009	Flood	Lancaster	$10,000	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Lancaster	$8,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Lancaster	$1,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1905 USGS Depew quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1948 USGS Depew quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1950 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:24000
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Buffalo 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
Lancaster Municipal Building	under 500 feet	1999
Central Avenue Historic District	0.1 miles	2014
Miller-Mackey House	0.1 miles	1999
Sommers, John P. House	0.1 miles	2012
Clark-Lester House	0.2 miles	1999
Bruce-Briggs Brick Block	0.2 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002340 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Erie County	All 283 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.