Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.
From the record
“Depew Lodge No. 823, Free and Accepted Masons is a historic building located at Lancaster in Erie County, New York as a Masonic Hall. It is a locally distinctive example of the Neo-Classical Revival style of architecture.”
Wikipedia article DePew Lodge No. 823, Free and Accepted Masons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.99001410- 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.
Then and now
1905 to 1960
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19051960
Fires near this property
493 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 493 fires within 5 miles of DePew Lodge No. 823, Free and Accepted Masons
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 190 acres in total. 83 started naturally. 36 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
254
Natural
83
Smoking
66
Arson/incendiarism
36
Recreation and ceremony
19
Debris and open burning
15
Misuse of fire by a minor
9
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
12 workings within 5 miles of DePew Lodge No. 823, Free and Accepted Masons: 7 producers, 5 past producers.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lancaster, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 6 flood, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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