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US Post Office-Little Falls

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“US Post Office-Little Falls is a historic post office building located at Little Falls in Herkimer County, New York, United States. It was built in 1907-1909, 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, James Knox Taylor.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Little Falls, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer 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--Little Falls - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 25 W. Main St., Little Falls, 13365
When was it listed? May 1989
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
City. Little Falls city
Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
National Register reference number. 88002343 - 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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Little Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 14 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	45
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	9
Smoking	7
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2020	Natural	3.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Little Falls: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Little Falls Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
Lyles Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Volo Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this property

44 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Falls, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 27 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 7 flood, 3 hail. 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
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	1 hurt, $40,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	$50,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	$40,000	no account filed
September 2000	Flash Flood	Little Falls	$29,000	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	$5,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	$5,000	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	A tree was downed on Burwell Street near the hospital in the City of Little Falls.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Downed trees and broken limbs were reported.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Trees were downed in the City of Little Falls.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Two trees were reported down in the City of Little Falls, one of which was down on wires near the intersection of North William Street and Garden Street.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Multiple trees down in the town of Little Falls.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Trees and wires were downed.
November 2019	Flood	Little Falls	-	Heavy rainfall resulted in a record high flood stage on the Mohawk River at Little Falls. The river reached moderate flood stage by 0055EST 1 November, and exceeded major flood stage shortly thereafter by 0150EST. The first crest occurred at 0516EST 1 November at 19.73 feet before it receded slightly, but a second, higher crest of 19.86 feet occurred at 0345EST 2 November. The river fell below major flood stage by 1915EST 2 November, and below moderate flood stage by 0022EST 3 November. The high water impacted nearby rail tracks such that Amtrak service was suspended on some routes between Albany and Syracuse, and some inbound passengers were transferred to buses.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	A tree was downed due to thunderstorm winds in Little Falls.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Trees were downed onto wires.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Trees and wires down with portions of a tree on fire.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Large branches were downed and blocking Salisbury Road in Little Falls due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	A tree was downed on State Route 170 near Yellow Church Road in the town of Little Falls due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Trees were reported down in Little Falls as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Tree down on wires on State Route 169 just inside the city limit of Little Falls due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2013	Flood	Little Falls	-	Flooding due to heavy rainfall earlier in the day continued along the Mohawk River at the Little Falls gage. The gage slowly fell during the day until dropping below flood stage in the evening hours at 6:02 PM EST. The Little Falls gage is located on left bank of the river, 1,800 ft downstream from Fivemile Dam, 2.0 miles upstream from East Canada Creek, and 4.5 miles southeast of city of Little Falls.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Several small trees were downed as a result of thunderstorm winds near Little Falls. The trees blocked Burrell Road.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Little Falls	-	Route 5 in Little Falls was closed due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Little Falls	-	Multiple roads were closed in the city of Little Falls due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	A silo was reported down and on a barn as a result of thunderstorm winds in Little Falls.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Little Falls	-	Flash flooding occurred along the Mohawk River at the Little Falls River Gage. The gage crested at 18.22 feet at 9:00 AM EST, which is considering major flooding and is the sixth highest crest on record. The Little Falls gage is located on left bank of the river, 1,800 feet downstream from Fivemile Dam, 2.0 miles upstream from East Canada Creek, and 4.5 miles southeast of city of Little Falls.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Little Falls.
December 2010	Flash Flood	Little Falls	-	A mud slide due to heavy rainfall closed Route 5 in Little Falls.
August 2010	Flood	Little Falls	-	Flooding was reported on Fincks Basin Road off Route 169 in Little Falls.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Wires were reported down in Herkimer due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2009	Hail	Little Falls	-	Penny size hail was reported in Little Falls during a thunderstorm.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Multiple trees were reported down in Little Falls due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Trees were reported down in Little Falls due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Little Falls	-	An emergency manager reported that Fulmer Creek was flooding Route 168 resulting in evacuations of mobile homes in a trailer park. The number of evacuees was unknown. The village of Little Falls was being sandbagged.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Little Falls	-	An emergency manager reported that a State of Emergency was declared across southern Herkimer County due to widespread flash flooding.
June 2006	Flood	Little Falls	-	An emergency manager reported that a house was lifted off its foundaton in Little Falls, due to a mud slide.
June 2006	Flood	Little Falls	-	An emergency manager reported that Routes 5 and 168 were closed due to flooding and mud slides.
November 2006	Flood	Little Falls	-	Flooding caused road closures on Route 5 near Little Falls, and Route 5S near German Flats.
November 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Trees and wires were reported down along Route 5 near Little Falls.
November 2006	Flood	Little Falls	-	The Mohawk River at Little Falls exceeded its flood stage of 15.0 feet at 11:49 PM EST on November 16th, cresting at 16.05 feet at 3:15 AM EST on the 17th, before falling back below flood stage at 5:28 AM EST on the 17th.
January 1998	Hail	Little Falls	-	During the afternoon of January 9, a cold front produced showers and thunderstorms across eastern New York. At Little Falls in Herkimer County, a severe thunderstorm dumped nickel size hail.
July 1999	Hail	Little Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Herkimer County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1900 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1939 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:31680
1949 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:25000
1949 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gloversville 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
Herkimer County Trust Company Building	under 500 feet	1970
South Ann Street-Mill Street Historic District	under 500 feet	2008
James Sanders House	0.2 miles	2006
Emmanuel Episcopal Church	0.4 miles	2009
Little Falls City Hall	0.4 miles	2011
Overlook	0.5 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002343 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Herkimer County	All 74 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.