Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex is a national historic district located at Port Byron and Mentz in Cayuga County, New York. The district includes two contributing buildings ; three contributing engineering structures ; and archaeological sites associated with the canal operations.”
Wikipedia article Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Cayuga County · listed in 1998 · 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 3 structuress, 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Maiden Ln., Port Byron, 13140
When was it listed? September 1998
Category. district
Town. Mentz town
National Register reference number. 98001146 - 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

88 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex between 2002 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 41 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
Arson/incendiarism	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this property

16 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Byron, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Byron	$20,000	Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Byron	$15,000	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Byron	$10,000	Multiple trees and wires downed in the village of Port Byron and the town of Mentz.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Byron	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Byron	$10,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Byron	$10,000	no account filed
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Byron	$5,000	Several Trees downed in Port Byron.
August 2015	Hail	Port Byron	$5,000	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Port Byron	$5,000	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Port Byron	$5,000	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Byron	$2,500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on Church Street.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Byron	$2,000	Trees and wires downed in the Town of Port Byron.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Byron	$2,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. The most damage occurred along Route 38 and Centerport Road.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Byron	$500	Tree downed on Church Street.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Byron	$500	Tree downed on Church Street.
August 2021	Heavy Rain	Port Byron	-	Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.

Every storm recorded in Cayuga County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1902 USGS Weedsport quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1943 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1954 USGS Weedsport quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Centreport Aqueduct	2.9 miles	2000
Mentz Church	3.4 miles	2004
Orrin W. Burritt House	3.7 miles	2007
First Baptist Church of Weedsport	3.8 miles	2002
Frank and Eliza Tryon House	3.9 miles	2014
Seneca River Crossing Canals Historic District	4.4 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001146 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cayuga County	All 71 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.
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.