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Photograph of Morgan Hook and Ladder Company
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Morgan Hook and Ladder Company

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Morgan Hook and Ladder Company is a historic fire station located at Naples in Ontario County, New York. The original part of the two story, frame structure was built about 1830 as a Federal style dwelling and later expanded and converted to a fire station in 1891 or 1892.”

Wikipedia article Morgan Hook and Ladder Company, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Ontario County · listed in 1995 · 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. 18--20 Mill St., Naples, 14512
  • When was it listed? June 1995
  • Category. building
  • Town. Naples town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 95000668 - 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Morgan Hook and Ladder Company between 1992 and 2017, burning about 192 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 2017Smoking2.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 August 2001Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
10 August 1997Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 July 1993Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
11 June 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 May 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
11 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Ontario 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 Morgan Hook and Ladder Company: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Monier Estate No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Wilcox PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ontario County

Storms near this property

24 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Naples, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Flash FloodNaples$6,000,000no account filed
May 2014FloodNaples$150,000no account filed
May 2000Flash FloodNaples$75,000no account filed
January 1999Heavy SnowNaples$75,000no account filed
August 2005LightningNaples$50,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNaples$25,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNaples$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines at the intersection of Routes 21 and 245.
June 2015Flash FloodNaples$15,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindNaples$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
September 2010FloodNaples$10,000no account filed
January 2008Thunderstorm WindNaples$10,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNaples$10,000no account filed
May 2004Flash FloodNaples$10,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindNaples$10,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindNaples$2,000Trees and wires were downed on Eelpot Road between Maxfield Road and Route 21.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNaples$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNaples$1,500Tree downed on wires on State Route 21 near Bristol Spring Road.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindNaples$500Tree downed.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNaples$500A tree was downed.
August 2024Flash FloodNaples-Route 245 closed in Naples with high water flowing over roadway.
August 2021Heavy RainNaples-Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.
August 2021Heavy RainNaples-Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.
October 2021FloodNaples-Flooding was reported on Route 245.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindNaples-Trees were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Ontario County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Central Naples Historic District0.1 miles2024
Naples Memorial Town Hall0.2 miles1996
Naples South Main Street Historic District0.2 miles2022
Naples Viniculture Historic District0.7 miles2022
Fairview Cemetery0.8 miles2023
Ephraim Cleveland House0.9 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000668 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ontario CountyAll 78 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.