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Photograph of Town Linke Church and Cemetery
Photograph by Pubdog, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Town Linke Church and Cemetery

Built in 1845 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1924.

From the record

“Town Line Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery located at Cameron Mills in Steuben County, New York. It is a small frame building constructed in 1845 in a vernacular Greek Revival style.”

Wikipedia article Town Line Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Steuben County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1845, Greek Revival architecture.

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 objectss, 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Cty Rte. 119, Cameron Mills, 14820
  • When was it listed? November 2000
  • Category. building
  • Town. Rathbone town
  • When was it built? 1845
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 00001317 - 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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Town Linke Church and Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural9
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 August 2016Debris and open burning1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Town Linke Church and Cemetery: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Town of Cameron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this property

4 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cameron Mills, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2021Flash FloodCameron Mills$15,000A residence was surrounded by water with a person trapped inside. Swiftwater rescues underway.
July 2021Flash FloodCameron Mills$3,000Tracy Creek is flooding near Tracy Creek Rd, and Richtmeyer Rd.
May 2025Flash FloodCameron Mills$2,000County Route 80 was closed due to water over roadways.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindCameron Mills$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down across a roadway.

Every storm recorded in Steuben 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Northrup Hill School District 102.5 miles1999
Church of the Redeemer7.4 miles1992
Main Street Historic Distrct7.4 miles1996
Maple Street Historic District7.4 miles1996
Addison Village Hall7.4 miles1980
William Wombough House7.7 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001317 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Steuben CountyAll 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.