Ellicottville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1924.

From the record

“Ellicottville Historic District is a historic district located at Ellicottville in Cattaraugus County, New York. The district encompasses the historic core of the village of Ellicottville with structures associated with the civic, commercial, religious, educational, and residential life of the village between 1817 and 1935.”
Wikipedia article Ellicottville Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Cattaraugus 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 bounded by Elizabeth, Monroe, Martha and Adams Sts., Ellicottville, 14731
When was it listed? August 1991
Category. district
Town. Ellicottville town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 91001028 - 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

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Ellicottville Historic District between 1995 and 2015, burning about 57 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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	17
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	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 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
24 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 May 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
22 May 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ellicottville Historic District: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Great Valley Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this property

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellicottville, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy snow. 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 2001	Hail	Ellicottville	$45,000	no account filed
January 1999	Heavy Snow	Ellicottville	$35,000	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$15,000	Law Enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Route 242.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds in Ellicottville.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$15,000	no account filed
July 1997	Flash Flood	Ellicottville	$15,000	no account filed
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$12,000	Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$12,000	Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 1998	Hail	Ellicottville	$12,000	no account filed
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$10,000	Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$10,000	Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2006	Hail	Ellicottville	$10,000	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$10,000	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Ellicottville	$10,000	no account filed
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$5,000	Multiple reports of trees downed in Ellicottville.
June 2008	Hail	Ellicottville	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$5,000	no account filed
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$3,000	Route 242 was closed due to downed powerlines.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$2,000	Trees and wires downed.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$2,000	Multiple trees were reported down.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$2,000	Trees were reported down.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicottville	$500	Tree downed due to thunderstorms winds.
September 2022	Flash Flood	Ellicottville	-	Flooding closed northbound Route 219 at Clark Road.
June 2021	Flash Flood	Ellicottville	-	Route 219 flooded and closed in front of the Dollar General.

Every storm recorded in Cattaraugus County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1924 USGS Ellicottville quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1941 USGS Ellicottville quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Ellicottville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Olean 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
Ellicottville Town Hall	0.1 miles	1973
Jefferson Street Cemetery	0.4 miles	2012
John J. Aiken House	1.6 miles	2013
Bryant Hill Cemetery	4.2 miles	2003
US Post Office-Little Valley	6.7 miles	1989
Cattaraugus County Memorial and Historical Building	6.8 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001028 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cattaraugus County	All 39 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.