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Photograph of East Palmyra Presbyterian Church
Photograph by DanielPenfield, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

East Palmyra Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“East Palmyra Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at East Palmyra in Wayne County, New York. It is a vernacular Romanesque style brick and stone church built in 1868-1869.”

Wikipedia article East Palmyra Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Wayne 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. 2102 Whitbeck Rd., East Palmyra, 14513
  • When was it listed? December 2002
  • Category. building
  • Town. Palmyra town
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 02001651 - 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

195 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of East Palmyra Presbyterian Church between 2001 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined108
Arson/incendiarism34
Debris and open burning18
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of East Palmyra Presbyterian Church: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Blackmar's QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Port Gibson QuarriesGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Winslow Heth QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Abam Cleason Co. Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Graf PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway Dept PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Palmyra PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Palmyra, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Palmyra$15,000Law enforcement reported downed trees blocking roads.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindEast Palmyra$1,000Several trees were reported down between Palmyra and Newark.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Reed Manufacturing Company3.6 miles2025
Jackson-Perkins House3.7 miles2006
US Post Office-Newark3.8 miles1989
Market Street Historic District4.4 miles1972
East Main Street Commercial Historic District4.4 miles1974
Palmyra Village Historic District4.5 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001651 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne CountyAll 40 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.