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US Post Office-Tonawanda

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“US Post Office-Tonawanda is a historic post office building located at Tonawanda in Erie County, New York, United States. It was designed and built 1939-1940, 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 under Louis A.”

Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Tonawanda, 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--Tonawanda - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 96 Seymour St., Tonawanda, 14150
  • When was it listed? May 1989
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
  • City. Tonawanda city
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88002437 - 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

590 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 590 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Tonawanda between 2000 and 2020, burning about 246 acres in total. 104 started naturally. 62 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/undetermined294
Natural104
Smoking63
Arson/incendiarism62
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use19
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
4 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tonawanda, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1996Flash FloodTonawanda$400,000no account filed
November 1999Flash FloodTonawanda$300,000no account filed
September 1996Flash FloodTonawanda$200,000no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindTonawanda$12,000no account filed
August 2019Flash FloodTonawanda$10,000Flooding with flowing water was reported at Morgan Street and Kohler Street.
August 2019Flash FloodTonawanda$10,000Knoche Road was closed due to flooding between Elmwood and Deleware Avenues.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindTonawanda$10,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindTonawanda$10,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindTonawanda$10,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindTonawanda$10,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindTonawanda$8,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindTonawanda$5,000Part of a school roof was torn off.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindTonawanda$5,000Multiple trees and power lines were reported down.
February 2019Flash FloodTonawanda$5,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindTonawanda$2,000Trees and power lines down onto Kohler Street.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindTonawanda$1,000Trees were reported down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindTonawanda$500A power pole was snapped.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindTonawanda$500A tree was reported down near Highland Avenue and Tussing Lane.
August 2024Flash FloodTonawanda-Several cars trapped in high water on Delaware Avenue under an underpass. Near Knoche Road.
July 2021Heavy RainTonawanda-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Kibler High School0.4 miles1999
Tonawanda (25th Separate Company) Armory1.9 miles1994
Tonawanda Municipal Building3.6 miles2013
St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church Complex3.7 miles2022
Wood and Brooks Company Factory Complex3.8 miles2023
Eberhardt Mansion4.0 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88002437 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Erie CountyAll 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.
  • 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.