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Photograph of South Main Street Historic District
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South Main Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“South Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Morris in Livingston County, New York. The district encompasses both sides of a three block section of South Main Street (NY-36), one of Mount Morris' premier residential neighborhoods.”

Wikipedia article South Main Street Historic District (Mount Morris, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 1996 · 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. 123--159 and 124--158 S. Main St., Mount Morris, 14510
  • When was it listed? March 1996
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Mount Morris MPS
  • Town. Mount Morris town
  • National Register reference number. 96000177 - 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

142 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of South Main Street Historic District between 2001 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 32 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/undetermined76
Arson/incendiarism32
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Smoking5
Other causes3

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
22 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Livingston 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 South Main Street Historic District: 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Potassium, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Retsof MineHalite, Potassium, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer1884
Reynolds QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Highway Dept. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kennedy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Geo.F.Hudson WellSaltPast Producer
Phoenix Salt WellSaltPast Producer
Royal Salt Co.WellSaltPast Producer
Sterling Salt Shaft No.1SaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

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
House at No. 176 South Main Street0.2 miles1999
House at No. 30 at Murray Street0.2 miles1999
New Family Theater0.2 miles1997
House at No. 8 State Street0.3 miles1999
St. John's Episcopal Church0.3 miles1991
State and Eagle Streets Historic District0.4 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000177 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston CountyAll 92 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.