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First Congregational Church and Society of Volney

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“First Congregational Church and Society of Volney, also known as Bristol Hill Church, Congregational United Church of Christ, is a historic Congregational church located at Volney in Oswego County, New York. It is a frame vernacular Federal style structure built in 1832-1835.”

Wikipedia article First Congregational Church and Society of Volney, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Oswego County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 3, Volney, 13069
  • When was it listed? June 2001
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Freedom Trail, Abolitionism, and African American Life in Central New York MPS
  • Town. Volney town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 01000675 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

171 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of First Congregational Church and Society of Volney between 2000 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined95
Arson/incendiarism34
Debris and open burning18
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3

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
8 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
27 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of First Congregational Church and Society of Volney: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fulton PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fulton PlantLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Gulliver PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rawson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this property

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Volney, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
June 2002Thunderstorm WindVolney$30,000no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindVolney$15,000no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindVolney$15,000no account filed
May 2000HailVolney$15,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindVolney$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindVolney$10,000Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindVolney$10,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindVolney$10,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindVolney$8,000no account filed
May 2017HailVolney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oswego 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.

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
Mount Adnah Cemetery3.5 miles2001
State Street Methodist Episcopal Church3.8 miles2013
John Wells Pratt House4.1 miles1999
US Post Office-Fulton4.1 miles1989
Fulton Public library4.1 miles1999
CHANCELLOR (tugboat)4.2 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000675 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oswego CountyAll 93 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.