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US Post Office-Waverly

Built in 1937 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“US Post Office-Waverly is a historic post office building located at Waverly in Tioga County, New York. It was designed and built in 1936-1937 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 (Waverly, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Tioga County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1937, Colonial Revival architecture, by Louis A. Simon.

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--Waverly - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 434--348 Waverly St., Waverly, 14892
When was it listed? May 1989
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
Town. Barton town
When was it built? 1937
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
Architect. Louis A. Simon
National Register reference number. 88002444 - 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

1902 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 90 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-Waverly, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet covering US Post Office-Waverly, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

130 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Waverly between 2003 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 16 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	43
Debris and open burning	35
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Arson/incendiarism	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Natural	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
23 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
19 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
14 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	TRACKS FIRE
9 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	ROUND TOP PARK

Every fire recorded in Tioga 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-Waverly: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Athens Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Past Producer
Barton Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plant No 6 Burns Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tioga 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.

1902 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1905 USGS Watkins Glen quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

4 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
Waverly Village Hall	under 500 feet	2003
Grace Episcopal Church	0.1 miles	2000
Waverly Junior and Senoir High School	0.2 miles	1997
Glenwood Cemetery and Mausoleum	0.8 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002444 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tioga County	All 57 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.