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US Post Office-Attica

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“US Post Office - Attica is a historic post office building located at Attica in Wyoming County, New York. It was designed and built in 1936-1937 as a Works Progress Administration project, 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 (Attica, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Wyoming 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--Attica - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 76 Main St., Attica, 14011
When was it listed? November 1988
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
Town. Attica town
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88002453 - 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

73 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Attica between 2003 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	3
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
6 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 July 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Attica: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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	Recorded
Charles Chick Well	Salt	Past Producer
J.Mattison Well	Salt	Past Producer
L.C.Wilkie Well	Salt	Past Producer
Alexander Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Alexander Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Batavia Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Batavia Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wyoming County

Storms near this property

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Attica, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 flood. 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 1998	Flash Flood	Attica	$250,000	no account filed
May 2011	Flash Flood	Attica	$75,000	no account filed
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Attica	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds caused substantial damage to trees at a golf course.
April 2004	Hail	Attica	$25,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Attica	$15,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Attica	$15,000	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Attica	$10,000	Trees and powerlines downed in several towns in the northern portion of the county.
November 2017	Flood	Attica	$10,000	Tonawanda Creek at Attica crested at 9.62 feet at 2:30 AM on the 6th (Flood Stage is 8 feet).
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Attica	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees down across Route 238.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Attica	$10,000	Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2017	Flood	Attica	$10,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Attica	$10,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Attica	$10,000	no account filed
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Attica	$8,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Attica	$8,000	no account filed
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Attica	$5,000	Report of a few trees downed on wires in Attica.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Attica	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Attica	$2,000	Multiple trees and powerlines were reported down.
January 1998	Flash Flood	Attica	$1,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Attica	$1,000	no account filed
July 2024	Flash Flood	Attica	-	Main Street between Water Street and Washington Street flooded. Water flowing into businesses on Main Street.

Every storm recorded in Wyoming 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.

1905 USGS Attica quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1949 USGS Attica quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Attica quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Attica quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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
Exchange Street Historic District	under 500 feet	2012
Augustus A. Smith House	0.1 miles	2007
Attica Market and Main Historic District	0.2 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002453 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wyoming County	All 26 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.