Point Chautauqua Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Point Chautauqua Historic District is a national historic district located on Point Chautauqua, three miles (5 km) from Mayville in Chautauqua County, New York. It is located approximately due north, upwards and to the left, across Chautauqua Lake from the Chautauqua Institution.”
Wikipedia article Point Chautauqua Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Chautauqua 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

Address. Roughly bounded by NY 430 and Chautauqua Lake between Lake and Leet Aves., Maryville, 14728
When was it listed? May 1996
Category. district
Town. Chautauqua town
National Register reference number. 96000521 - 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

74 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Point Chautauqua Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 18 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	28
Arson/incendiarism	18
Natural	14
Recreation and ceremony	6
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
25 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
16 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
13 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua 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.

1904 USGS Chautaqua quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1904 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1941 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Jamestown 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
Miller, Lewis, Cottage, Chautauqua Institution	1.9 miles	1966
Pennsylvania Railroad Station	1.9 miles	1993
Chautauqua Institution Historic District	2.0 miles	1973
Midway Park	3.0 miles	2009
Henry Dwight Thompson House	7.8 miles	1983
Harriet Campbell-Taylor House	7.9 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000521 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chautauqua County	All 50 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.