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US Post Office-Albion

Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Post Office in Albion, New York, is located on South Main Street in the center of town. It serves the 14411 ZIP Code, covering the village and town of Albion plus neighboring sections of the towns of Barre and Gaines.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Albion, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Orleans County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1937, 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

Listed as. US Post Office--Albion - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Main St., Albion, 14001
When was it listed? November 1988
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
When was it built? 1937
Architect. Louis A. Simon
National Register reference number. 88002450 - 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

23 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Albion between 2000 and 2019, burning about 21 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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	18
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
3 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Eastern Regional Office	13600 SKYE ROAD
6 June 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Eastern Regional Office	7264 PARKER ROAD
7 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 May 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this property

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albion, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 4 hail. 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 2006	Flash Flood	Albion	$200,000	no account filed
October 1996	Flash Flood	Albion	$50,000	no account filed
October 1996	Flash Flood	Albion	$50,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$25,000	no account filed
August 1996	Flash Flood	Albion	$25,000	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Albion	$20,000	no account filed
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds..
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$15,000	Law enforcement report trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
January 1998	Flash Flood	Albion	$15,000	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$10,000	A tree was downed onto a trailer.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$10,000	Officials reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$10,000	Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down on Crimson Heights Road.
September 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down on Zig Zag Road.
June 2008	Hail	Albion	$10,000	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Albion	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$3,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Albion	$1,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Albion	$1,000	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orleans 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.

1897 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1949 USGS Akron quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Akron quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1981 USGS Akron quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002450 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orleans County	All 30 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.