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Grace Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Grace Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Waverly in Tioga County, New York. It is a Gothic Revival style wood-frame structure, three bays wide and six bays deep, and resting on a brick foundation with cement veneer.”

Wikipedia article Grace Episcopal Church (Waverly, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Tioga County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 445 Park Ave., Waverly, 14892
  • When was it listed? August 2000
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Historic Churches of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York MPS
  • Town. Barton town
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 00000878 - 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

1902 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Grace Episcopal Church, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet covering Grace Episcopal Church, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

127 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Grace Episcopal Church between 2003 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined42
Debris and open burning35
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism14
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
19 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
14 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acrePennsylvania Division of Forest Fire ProtectionTRACKS FIRE
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePennsylvania Division of Forest Fire ProtectionROUND TOP PARK

Every fire recorded in Tioga 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 Grace Episcopal Church: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Athens PlantSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayPast Producer
Barton Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant No 6 Burns PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tioga County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

Listed places nearby

4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Waverly Junior and Senoir High Schoolunder 500 feet1997
US Post Office-Waverly0.1 miles1989
Waverly Village Hall0.2 miles2003
Glenwood Cemetery and Mausoleum0.8 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000878 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tioga CountyAll 57 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.