North Ridge United Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“North Ridge United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church located at North Ridge, New York in Niagara County, New York. It is a Greek Revival style cobblestone church constructed in 1848.”
Wikipedia article North Ridge United Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Niagara 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. 3930 North Ridge Rd., Norh Ridge, 14094
When was it listed? December 2002
Category. building
Also known as. Cobblestone Architecture of New York State MPS
Town. Cambria town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 02001649 - 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

81 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of North Ridge United Methodist Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 25 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
Arson/incendiarism	25
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Other causes	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1897 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Niagara quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
1900 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1948 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1949 USGS Cambria quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Cambria quadrangle1:24000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1980 USGS Cambria quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Lockport 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
Forsyth-Warren Farm	3.6 miles	2020
Morse Cobblestone Farmhouse	4.9 miles	2010
Watson House	6.7 miles	2003
Maloney House	6.8 miles	2003
Niagara County Courthouse and County Clerk's Office	7.1 miles	1997
DAY PECKINPAUGH, (canal motorship)	7.1 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001649 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Niagara County	All 99 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.