South Street Area Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“South Street Area Historic District is a national historic district located in Auburn. The district contains 164 contributing resources and includes structures dating from 1800 to the 1940s.”
Wikipedia article South Street Area Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Cayuga County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly, South St. and adjacent properties from Metcalf Dr. to Lincoln St., Auburn, 13021
When was it listed? March 1991
Category. district
City. Auburn city
National Register reference number. 91000109 - 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

206 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of South Street Area Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 43 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	116
Arson/incendiarism	43
Smoking	13
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	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
26 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of South Street Area Historic District: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Franklin Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Franklin Street Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Harkington Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Harkington Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sennett Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this property

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Auburn, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 29 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 5 lightning, 4 flash 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
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$50,000	A line of thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts which knocked down trees and wires.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees. The wind also ripped off the roof of the landfill maintenance building. The roof was blown across the street into a radio station service structure. The roof also snapped wires and utility poles as it crossed the street. 4,400 electric customers were without power.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$50,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$50,000	no account filed
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$50,000	no account filed
June 2002	Lightning	Auburn	$30,000	Lightning struck the jail and the sheriff's department in Sennett knocking out 911 service briefly. This strike damaged the radio tower. Another lightning strike hit the Auburn Police Department's transmitter.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds brought down two high voltage powerlines just outside the city of Auburn. This resulted in a loss of power for approximately 5000 people over a six county area.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees. No phone service is available throughout town.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down multiple trees and collapsed tents in Emerson Park.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$10,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over multiple trees on structures.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees and wires. A gazebo was blown into the road. \|
July 2006	Flash Flood	Auburn	$10,000	Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused flash flooding. Significant flooding occurred county-wide, with many roads closed.
November 2006	Flash Flood	Auburn	$10,000	Road flooding in Auburn.
June 2005	Lightning	Auburn	$10,000	Lightning started a fire on the second floor of a garage on Cayuga Street. The fire in the garage was quickly extinguished. The lightning also shorted out the kitchen wiring and telephones in the nearby house.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$10,000	A severe thunderstorm blew down large trees and limbs in Auburn between 6:15 and 6:30 pm EDT.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on South Hunter and Highland Roads.
August 2019	Lightning	Auburn	$5,000	Lightning struck a church steeple during a thunderstorm.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$5,000	Scattered trees down throughout county.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$5,000	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$5,000	no account filed
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires on Franklin Street.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires in Auburn.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a trees and wires near Rockefeller Rd.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$3,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed in the southeast corner of the city. Penny size hail was also reported.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$2,000	Trees were blown down in the city of Auburn and the village of Owasco.
May 2004	Lightning	Auburn	$2,000	Lightning struck a tree causing it to shatter and break three windows in a house on South Street.
July 2013	Hail	Auburn	$2,000	no account filed
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and lifted a trampoline off the ground.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Auburn	$1,000	Heavy rains from thunderstorms caused many streams to overflow their banks.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on a property.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	-	Multiple trees were blown down on Lake Avenue.
July 2013	Hail	Auburn	-	Hail was accompanied by 30 to 40 MPH wind gusts.
June 2004	Hail	Auburn	-	Nickel sized hail.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	-	Newspaper reports indicate thunderstorm winds knocked a power line down at East Genesee Street and North Hunter.
August 2001	Lightning	Auburn	-	Newspaper reports indicate that a thunderstorm with frequent lightning strikes caused numerous power disruptions by knocking down power lines. A tree and a bank on Grant Avenue were struck with significant damage being done to the chimney on the bank.
May 2000	Flash Flood	Auburn	-	Sucker Brook was reported to be above bankfull.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	-	A storm spotter reported trees and wires down with an estimated wind speed of 60 MPH in Auburn. Localized street flooding was reported along Cottage Street and North Street. Thunderstorm winds also knocked down trees in Owasco, Montezuma, and New Hope.
July 2000	Hail	Auburn	-	Reports of dime size hail were recieved from the media. Lightning strikes also left 158 homes without power and heavy rain caused ponding of water on roadways.
July 2014	Hail	Auburn	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Auburn	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Auburn	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Auburn	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Auburn	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Auburn	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Auburn	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Auburn	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cayuga County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1899 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1943 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 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
Auburn Button Works and Logan Silk Mills	under 500 feet	2007
Schines Auburn Theatre	0.2 miles	2000
William H. Seward House	0.2 miles	1966
Cayuga County Courthouse and Clerk's Office	0.3 miles	1991
US Post Office, Former, and Federal Courthouse	0.4 miles	1991
Ezra A. Huntington House	0.4 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000109 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cayuga County	All 71 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.