Main Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Main Street Historic District in Medina, New York, United States, is the downtown commercial core of the village. It is a 12-acre (4.9 ha) area stretching south along Main Street from the Erie Canal to the railroad tracks.”
Wikipedia article Main Street Historic District (Medina, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Orleans County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly, along Main and Center Sts., West Ave. and Proctor Pl., Medina, 14103
When was it listed? March 1995
Category. district
Town. Ridgeway town
National Register reference number. 95000213 - 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 Main Street Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 11 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
Smoking	11
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	10
Debris and open burning	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
9 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	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
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2003	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orleans County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Main Street Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
	Medina Sandstone Quarry, Inc.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Rorick Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this property

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medina, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 2 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
August 2011	Hail	Medina	$50,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Medina	$35,000	no account filed
August 1996	Flash Flood	Medina	$30,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Medina	$25,000	no account filed
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Medina	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Medina	$15,000	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Medina	$15,000	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Medina	$15,000	no account filed
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Medina	$10,000	Law enforcement received reports of trees and wires down.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Medina	$10,000	no account filed
January 1999	Heavy Snow	Medina	$10,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Medina	$10,000	no account filed
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Medina	$8,000	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Medina	$8,000	no account filed
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Medina	$5,000	Multiple reports were received of trees and wires down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Medina	$3,000	no account filed
July 2020	Heavy Rain	Medina	-	Rainfall of 2.82 inches fell between noon and 2:50 PM.
July 2020	Heavy Rain	Medina	-	Rainfall of 5.59 inches reported.
July 2020	Heavy Rain	Medina	-	Rainfall of 7.03 inches report.
July 2020	Flash Flood	Medina	-	Additional flooding was reported in Medina.

Every storm recorded in Orleans 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.

1897 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1949 USGS Medina quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Medina quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1984 USGS Lockport 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-Medina	under 500 feet	1989
Main Street Historic District Boundary Increase	0.2 miles	1997
Medina Armory	0.3 miles	1995
Payjack Chevrolet Building	0.3 miles	2012
Boxwood Cemetery	1.1 miles	2015
Servoss House	2.2 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000213 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orleans County	All 30 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.