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US Post Office-Angola

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“US Post Office - Angola is a historic post office building located at Angola in Erie County, New York. It was designed and built 1938-1939, 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 (Angola, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 1988 · 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--Angola - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 80 N. Main St., Angola, 14006
When was it listed? November 1988
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
Town. Evans town
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88002452 - 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

1899 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 61 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-Angola, surveyed 1960

Topographic sheet covering US Post Office-Angola, surveyed 1899

Fires near this property

187 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Angola between 2000 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 26 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	93
Debris and open burning	29
Arson/incendiarism	26
Natural	25
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Angola, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
January 1999	Flash Flood	Angola	$135,000	no account filed
January 1999	Flash Flood	Angola	$55,000	no account filed
June 1994	Tornado (F0)	Angola	$50,000	Thunderstorms which moved onshore from Lake Erie produced damaging winds and spawned a weak tornado. The tornado mainly uprooted trees, one of which fell onto a house.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Angola	$40,000	no account filed
January 1999	Flash Flood	Angola	$40,000	no account filed
March 2002	Seiche	Angola	$35,000	no account filed
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Angola	$15,000	The media reported wires downed by thunderstorm winds in Angola.
April 2001	Hail	Angola	$10,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Angola	$2,000	Multiple trees were downed in Angola.
February 2026	Hail	Angola	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1899 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1944 USGS Angola quadrangle1:31680
1960 USGS Angola quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

5 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
Pioneer Cemetery	1.1 miles	2012
First Church of Evans Complex	3.1 miles	2006
Graycliff	5.8 miles	1998
Gamel Hexadecagon Barn	6.7 miles	1984
Thomas Indian School- Infirmary	7.1 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002452 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Erie County	All 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.