Jewett Presbyterian Church Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Jewett Presbyterian Church Complex is a historic Presbyterian church on Church Street in Jewett, Greene County, New York. The complex consists of the 1848 Jewett Presbyterian Church and adjacent 1848 former Methodist Episcopal Church.”
Wikipedia article Jewett Presbyterian Church Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene 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. Church St., Jewett, 12444
When was it listed? December 2001
Category. building
Town. Jewett town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 01001382 - 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

90 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Jewett Presbyterian Church Complex between 1993 and 2020, burning about 206 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 7 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	41
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	2

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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2020	Natural	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
14 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jewett, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2020	Flood	Jewett	$85,000	County Route 17 in Jewett was closed between Route 23A and Mill Hollow Road due to a washout. A power pole on the side of the road was also washed out. A complete rebuild of the road was required, and the road remained closed as of mid-February 2021.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Jewett	$5,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Jewett	-	Large trees were reported down in Jewett due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2012	Flash Flood	Jewett	-	Several roads in Jewett were reported to have been closed due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Jewett	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Jewett due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Jewett	-	Tree and wires were reported down in Jewett due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Jewett	-	A tree was reported down in Jewett due to strong thunderstorm winds.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Jewett	-	Law enforcement officials reported that trees and wires were blown down.
September 2004	Flash Flood	Jewett	-	Route 77 closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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.

1901 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1945 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1946 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
Trinity Episcopal Church	2.0 miles	1996
Elijah Strong House	3.0 miles	2003
St. Francis DeSales Church	3.6 miles	1999
Centre Presbyterian Church	3.7 miles	1979
Lexington House	3.8 miles	1986
Methodist Episcopal Church of Windham Centre	3.9 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001382 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 101 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.
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.