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Pennsylvania Railroad Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Mayville station is a historic train station located at Mayville in Chautauqua County, New York. It was constructed in 1925, for the Pennsylvania Railroad and is a brick structure with an overhanging hipped roof.”
Wikipedia article Mayville station (New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Chautauqua County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Water St., Mayville
When was it listed? August 1993
Category. building
Unorganized territory. Chautauqua Lake
National Register reference number. 93000680 - 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

65 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Pennsylvania Railroad Station between 1993 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 20 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	22
Arson/incendiarism	20
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	7
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
16 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this property

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayville, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayville	1 hurt, $60,000	no account filed
May 2014	Flash Flood	Mayville	$100,000	no account filed
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayville	$20,000	Law enforcement reported wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayville	$15,000	no account filed
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayville	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayville	$10,000	no account filed
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayville	$10,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayville	$8,000	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayville	$7,000	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Mayville	$5,000	no account filed
July 2018	Heavy Rain	Mayville	-	Rainfall of 2.31 reported in 24 hours.
April 2019	Hail	Mayville	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Mayville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chautauqua 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.

1904 USGS Chautaqua quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1904 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1941 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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 Jamestown 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
Point Chautauqua Historic District	1.9 miles	1996
Chautauqua Institution Historic District	2.9 miles	1973
Miller, Lewis, Cottage, Chautauqua Institution	2.9 miles	1966
Midway Park	4.8 miles	2009
Henry Dwight Thompson House	6.2 miles	1983
Harriet Campbell-Taylor House	6.3 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000680 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chautauqua County	All 50 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.