Garrett Memorial Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Garrett Memorial Chapel is a small Church in the Norman Gothic Style located on Bluff Point at Lake Keuka, in the town of Jerusalem, in Yates County, New York. On 30 March 2001 the Chapel was added to the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Garrett Memorial Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 66 National Register listings published here for Yates 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Skyline Dr., Bluff Point, 14478
When was it listed? March 2001
Category. building
Town. Jerusalem town
National Register reference number. 01000296 - 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

69 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Garrett Memorial Chapel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 213 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined	35
Debris and open burning	16
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
12 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 August 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
6 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 July 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 June 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 June 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Yates County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Garrett Memorial Chapel: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Natural Gas. 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
Best No.2 Well	Salt, Natural Gas	Past Producer
Camp Erie Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Camp Erie Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pulteney Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pulteney Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sleve Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Yates County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1903 USGS Penn Yan quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Pulteney quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Pulteney quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Canandaigua 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
Abraham Wagener House	0.3 miles	1994
Spicer-Millard House	4.4 miles	1994
Beddoe-Rose Family Cemetery	5.2 miles	2014
Dr. James Wrightman House	5.9 miles	1994
Peter Bitley House	6.0 miles	1994
Thomas Bitley House	6.0 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000296 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yates County	All 66 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.