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US Post Office-Le Roy

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Post Office in Le Roy, New York, serves the 14482 ZIP Code, covering the village and town of Le Roy. It is a brick and stone building on Main Street erected in the late 1930s.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Le Roy, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Genesee 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--Le Roy - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2 Main St., Le Roy, 14482
When was it listed? May 1989
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
Town. Le Roy town
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88002342 - 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 US Post Office-Le Roy between 2000 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 13 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	49
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	13
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
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
8 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2005	Natural	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

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Le Roy: 8 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Natural Gas. 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
Allen's Creek Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
C.Davis No.1 Well	Salt, Natural Gas	Past Producer
Lake Road Gravel Products	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
North Leroy Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Leroy Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Leroy Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
North Leroy Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
C.H.Ivison No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Lehigh Salt Shaft	Salt	Past Producer
Salt Well	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this property

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Le Roy, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 heavy rain. 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 2012	Flash Flood	Le Roy	$50,000	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Roy	$20,000	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Roy	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees on West Main Street.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Roy	$15,000	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Roy	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Roy	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Roy	$10,000	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Roy	$10,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Roy	$10,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Le Roy	$10,000	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Roy	$2,000	Trees and wires downed.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Roy	$2,000	Trees and power lines were reported down in Le Roy.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Roy	$2,000	Trees and poles were reported down.
January 1998	Flash Flood	Le Roy	$1,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Le Roy	$1,000	no account filed
October 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Roy	$500	Tree downed on road.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Roy	-	Tree downed onto house on Ward Place in Le Roy, causing minor damage.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Le Roy	-	New York State Route 5 and railroad underpass flooded. Around 5 feet of water.
August 2020	Heavy Rain	Le Roy	-	A trained spotter reported 2.06 inches of rainfall.
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Roy	-	A spotter reported trees and power lines down.
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Le Roy	-	no account filed
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Le Roy	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

1904 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1944 USGS Le Roy quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Le Roy quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1951 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
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
St. Mark's Episcopal Church & Cemetery	under 500 feet	2021
Le Roy Historic District	0.1 miles	2017
First Presbyterian Church of Le Roy	0.1 miles	2014
LeRoy House and Union Free School	0.2 miles	1997
St. Mark's Episcopal Church & Cemetery	0.2 miles	2021
Keeney House	0.2 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002342 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.
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.