LeRoy House and Union Free School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Le Roy House and Union Free School are located on East Main Street in Le Roy, New York, United States. The house is a stucco-faced stone building in the Greek Revival architectural style.”
Wikipedia article Le Roy House and Union Free School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Genesee County · listed in 1997 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 23 E. Main St., Leroy, 14482
When was it listed? November 1997
Category. building
Town. Le Roy town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 97001388 - 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

87 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of LeRoy House and Union Free School between 2000 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 12 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	49
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of LeRoy House and Union Free School: 8 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Natural Gas. 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
Allen's Creek Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
C.Davis No.1 Well	Salt, Natural Gas	Past Producer
Lake Road Gravel Products	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
North Leroy Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Leroy Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Leroy Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
North Leroy Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
C.H.Ivison No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Lehigh Salt Shaft	Salt	Past Producer
Salt Well	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee 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.

1904 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1944 USGS Le Roy quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Le Roy quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1951 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
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
St. Mark's Episcopal Church & Cemetery	under 500 feet	2021
St. Mark's Episcopal Church & Cemetery	0.1 miles	2021
US Post Office-Le Roy	0.2 miles	1989
Augustus S. Tyron House	0.2 miles	2013
Le Roy Historic District	0.3 miles	2017
First Presbyterian Church of Le Roy	0.3 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001388 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Genesee County	All 27 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.