Honeoye Falls Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Honeoye Falls Village Historic District is a national historic district at Honeoye Falls in Monroe County, New York, USA. The district encompasses 217 residential, industrial, commercial, religious, civic and educational properties in the historic core of the village of Honeoye Falls.”
Wikipedia article Honeoye Falls Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly, jct. of Main, Monroe and Ontario Sts. and adjacent areas, Honeoye Falls, 14472
When was it listed? November 1993
Category. district
Town. Mendon town
National Register reference number. 93001225 - 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

86 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Honeoye Falls Village Historic District between 2000 and 2019, burning about 133 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 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	39
Arson/incendiarism	19
Debris and open burning	12
Smoking	5
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Honeoye Falls Village Historic District: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
General Crushed Stone Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Honeoye Falls Well	Salt	Prospect
Rochester Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Bloomfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bloomfield Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Olmstead Operation	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honeoye Falls, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2007: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Honeoye Falls	$15,000	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Honeoye Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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.

1901 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1934 USGS Honeoye Falls quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Honeoye Falls quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Honeoye Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Honeoye Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1983 USGS Canandaigua 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
US Post Office-Honeoye Falls	0.3 miles	1989
St. John's Episcopal Church	0.4 miles	1988
Lower Mill	0.6 miles	1973
Hiram Sibley Homestead	1.9 miles	1985
Gates-Livermore Cobblestone	3.1 miles	1996
Miller-Horton-Barben Farm	4.6 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001225 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 233 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.