Otsdawa Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

“Otsdawa Baptist Church is a historic Free Will Baptist church on City Road 8 in Otsdawa, Otsego County, New York. It was built in 1840 and is a one-story rectangular building, three bays wide and three bays deep.”
Wikipedia article Otsdawa Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 2002 · 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. Cty Rd. 8, Otsdawa, 13825
When was it listed? March 2002
Category. building
Town. Otego town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 02000143 - 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

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Otsdawa Baptist Church between 1993 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 June 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

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 Otsdawa Baptist Church: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Valley View Road	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

1915 USGS Oneonta quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Oneonta quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Otego quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1945 USGS Otego quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton 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
St. Stephen's Chapel	3.8 miles	2021
Morris-Lull Farm	4.9 miles	2005
Zion Episcopal Church Complex and Harmony Cemetery	4.9 miles	1997
Bresee Hall	5.5 miles	1984
Zion Episcopal Church Complex and Harmony Cemetery	5.6 miles	1997
Morris Village Historic District	5.6 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000143 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otsego County	All 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.