Murray 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

“Murray Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Morris in Livingston County, New York. The districts consists of the 16 properties on Murray Street between Eagle Street and Stanley Street.”
Wikipedia article Murray Street Historic District, 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 22 buildingss, 3 objectss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 33--47 and 32--46 Murray 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. 96000178 - 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

139 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Murray Street Historic District between 2001 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 30 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	77
Arson/incendiarism	30
Natural	10
Smoking	7
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Other causes	2

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
22 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Murray Street Historic District: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Halite, Potassium, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Flagstone. 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
Highway Dept. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Retsof Mine	Halite, Potassium, Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer	1884
Reynolds Quarry	Flagstone	Producer
Geo.F.Hudson Well	Salt	Past Producer
Phoenix Salt Well	Salt	Past Producer
Royal Salt Co.Well	Salt	Past Producer
Sterling Salt Shaft No.1	Salt	Past 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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1905 USGS Nunda quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Mount Morris quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1944 USGS Mount Morris quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Mount Morris quadrangle1:24000 - 2 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
House at No. 48 Grove Street	1.1 miles	1999
State and Eagle Streets Historic District	1.2 miles	1996
St. John's Episcopal Church	1.3 miles	1991
House at No. 30 at Murray Street	1.3 miles	1999
House at No. 13 Grove Street	1.3 miles	1999
Gen. William A. Mills House	1.4 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000178 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston County	All 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.