Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.
From the record
“US Post Office-Canastota is a historic post office building located at Canastota in Madison County, New York, United States. It is within the boundaries of the South Peterboro Street Commercial Historic District.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Canastota, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 83 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.88002467- 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
92 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 92 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Canastota
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 17 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
44
Arson/incendiarism
17
Debris and open burning
14
Natural
10
Smoking
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Recreation and ceremony
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Canastota: 4 past producers, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Canastota, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Severe thunderstorms moved through the area during the mid afternoon of July 16, 2024. One of the storm cells moved through Canastota, NY producing a tornado touchdown between the Conrail railroad tracks and Barlow Street. The tornado was witnessed by town officials, residents and a video security camera on Canal Street as it moved to the east along Barlow and Railroad Streets. Severe damage occurred to multiple residences along Barlow Street with significant loss of roofs and roofing material as well as blowing out garage doors and windows. Two sheds were destroyed and multiple large diameter tree trunks and limbs were snapped. An 82 year old male |succumbed to injuries sustained while he was outside as the tornado crossed Main |Street. The tornado continued down Center Street causing further damage to trees, |roofs and a few power poles. The tornado veered slightly to the northeast crossing|the Old Erie Canal, causing additional tree damage and tearing a metal roof off of |a pole bar along Canal Road. It then weakened and dissipated before striking a solar |farm which sustained nearly no damage. The damage found along most of the tornado track was consistent with maximum wind speeds around 100 mph which is within the EF-1 category of the Enhanced Fujita scale.
A thunderstorm rapidly became severe over northern portions of the county. Widespread wind damage was reported in Canastota, with the damage reports crossing into the town of Oneida shortly thereafter. Numerous trees and wires were downed in both localities. Two storage sheds were also damaged in Oneida with both a parked vehicle and camper heavily damaged from falling tree limbs.
A line of severe thunderstorms moved across the county causing trees and power lines to come down between 2:35 and 2:40 pm EDT. Trees and wires were downed 5 miles south of Canastota in Lincoln Township and in Hubbardsville.
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.
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.
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.
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