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Photograph of West Kortright Presbyterian Church
Photograph by ErixS, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

West Kortright Presbyterian Church

Built in 1850. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

“West Kortright Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at 49 W. Kortright Church Road in West Kortright, Delaware County, New York.”

Wikipedia article West Kortright Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1850.

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. 49 W. Kortright Church Rd., West Kortright, 13757
  • When was it listed? November 2002
  • Category. building
  • Town. Kortright town
  • When was it built? 1850
  • National Register reference number. 02001326 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of West Kortright Presbyterian Church between 1992 and 2017, burning about 73 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning9
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1

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
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 Kortright Presbyterian 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hillis Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware 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
MacDonald Farm3.4 miles1973
McArthur-Martin Hexadecagon Barn4.2 miles1984
United Presbyterian Church of Davenport4.7 miles2017
United Presbyterian Church of Davenport4.7 miles2017
Bloomville Methodist Epicopal Church5.2 miles2006
Christian Church7.3 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001326 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware CountyAll 78 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.