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Photograph of West Burlington Memorial Church
Photograph by Agreen54, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

West Burlington Memorial Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“West Burlington Memorial Church, also known as Christ Church, is a historic Episcopal church on NY 80 in West Burlington, Otsego County, New York. It was built in 1868 in the Gothic Revival style.”

Wikipedia article West Burlington Memorial Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 80, West Burlington
  • When was it listed? January 2001
  • Category. building
  • Town. Burlington town
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 00001661 - 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

40 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of West Burlington Memorial Church between 1999 and 2018, burning about 42 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2

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
16 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 June 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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 West Burlington Memorial Church: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

6 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Burlington, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports in 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Flash FloodWest Burlington$15,000Flooding due to a debris filled culvert was impacting two homes in the area.
July 2023Flash FloodWest Burlington$10,000Water up to 6 inches deep was reported running across Gulf Road and washing out portions of the shoulder and pavement.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Burlington$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree which landed on a house, resulting in damage.
August 2023Flash FloodWest Burlington$3,000Numerous roads were flooded in the area.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Burlington$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on State Highway 51.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Burlington$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on State Highway 80.

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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
Rutherford House2.8 miles2019
Lunn-Musser Octagon Barn5.7 miles1984
White House, The6.7 miles2012
House at 120 Balcom Road7.3 miles2024
Old Hartwick Village Cemetery7.6 miles2013
Hartwick Historic District7.6 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001661 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otsego CountyAll 79 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.