Pulteney Square Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Pulteney Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Hammondsport in Steuben County, New York. The district includes 15 contributing buildings, one contributing structure (bandstand), one contributing site, and three contributing secondary buildings.”
Wikipedia article Pulteney Square Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Steuben County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly surrounds Pulteney Sq., Hammondsport, 14840
When was it listed? November 1999
Category. district
Town. Urbana town
National Register reference number. 99001364 - 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

54 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Pulteney Square Historic District between 1997 and 2020, burning about 205 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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	21
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
15 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	PIGTAIL FIRE #2
11 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
23 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 August 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	URBANA FIRE
1 August 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
7 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pulteney Square Historic District: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
C.Champlin No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Winding Stairs Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Winding Stairs Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this property

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hammondsport, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flash flood. 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
June 2015	Flash Flood	Hammondsport	$165,000	County Route 87 was closed due to severe flooding.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Hammondsport	$10,000	Trees and wires were blown down across the road.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hammondsport	$10,000	no account filed
October 2021	Flash Flood	Hammondsport	$5,000	Flash flooding closed roads near the intersection of County Route 87 and State Route 54 in the Town of Urbana.
October 2021	Flash Flood	Hammondsport	$5,000	Flash flooding closed roads near the intersection of County Route 87 and State Route 54 in the Town of Urbana.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hammondsport	$2,000	A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in a 10 inch diameter tree being knocked over the road.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hammondsport	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and wires.
July 2008	Hail	Hammondsport	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Hammondsport	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Hammondsport	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hammondsport	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Steuben County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1903 USGS Hammondsport quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Hammondsport quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Hornell 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
Hammondsport Union Free School	0.1 miles	2008
Village of Hammondsport Historic District	0.2 miles	2024
Mallory Mill	0.2 miles	1999
Timothy M. Younglove Octagon House	1.1 miles	2002
Germania Wine Cellars	1.4 miles	2000
Pleasant Valley Wine Company	1.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001364 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Steuben County	All 63 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.
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.