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Photograph of First Baptist Church of Weedsport
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First Baptist Church of Weedsport

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“First Baptist Church of Weedsport is a historic Baptist church located at Weedsport in Cayuga County, New York. It is a masonry structure built in 1870 that substantially modified a meetinghouse built in 1839 and enlarged in 1854.”

Wikipedia article First Baptist Church of Weedsport, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Cayuga 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Liberty St., Weedsport, 13166
  • When was it listed? December 2002
  • Category. building
  • Town. Brutus town
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 02001640 - 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

85 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of First Baptist Church of Weedsport between 2002 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism20
Natural9
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2

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 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Cayuga 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 First Baptist Church of Weedsport: 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
Sennett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this property

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weedsport, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
November 1996Flash FloodWeedsport$35,000no account filed
November 1996Flash FloodWeedsport$15,000no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindWeedsport$5,000Several trees downed in Weedsport.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindWeedsport$5,000Thunderstorm winds lifted a trampoline onto a house.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWeedsport$3,000Several trees and wires downed.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWeedsport$2,000Trees and wires downed on Putnam Rd.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWeedsport$2,000Trees and wires downed on Rude St.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWeedsport$2,000Trees and wires downed on Hoyt Road.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindWeedsport$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree in a backyard.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWeedsport$500Tree downed in Weedsport.
August 2011HailWeedsport-no account filed
June 2007HailWeedsport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cayuga 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
Orrin W. Burritt Houseunder 500 feet2007
Frank and Eliza Tryon House0.4 miles2014
Centreport Aqueduct0.8 miles2000
Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex3.8 miles1998
Sennett Federated Church and Parsonage3.8 miles2005
Mentz Church6.7 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001640 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cayuga CountyAll 71 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.