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Photograph of First Baptist Church of Interlaken
Photograph by Doug Kerr from now in Binghamton, NY, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First Baptist Church of Interlaken

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“First Baptist Church of Interlaken is a historic Baptist church located at Interlaken in Seneca County, New York. It was constructed in 1861 and is a brick and stone church with a vernacular Romanesque Revival style and decorative features.”

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

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Seneca 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. 8414 Main St., Interlaken, 14847
  • When was it listed? December 2002
  • Category. building
  • Town. Covert town
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • Architect. Horatio Nelson White
  • National Register reference number. 02001655 - 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

35 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of First Baptist Church of Interlaken between 1998 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1
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
8 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minor2.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Seneca 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 Interlaken: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
Carrie Chapman No.1 WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Seneca County

Storms near this property

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Interlaken, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 7 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
August 2004Thunderstorm WindInterlaken$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindInterlaken$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and lines on Holten Beach Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindInterlaken$5,000A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in a few trees being knocked over.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindInterlaken$1,000Power lines were knocked down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindInterlaken$1,000Trees and limbs were blown down on Main Street.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindInterlaken-Trees were blown down on Powell Road and Railroad Avenue. Pea size hail also fell.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindInterlaken-Trees were blown down in Interlaken and Trumansburg on the Seneca County side.

Every storm recorded in Seneca 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
Covert Historic District3.7 miles1980
Lodi Methodist Church4.9 miles1982
Aaron Wilson House5.8 miles2001
Jones, Hannah and George W. House6.4 miles2020
Seneca County Courthouse Complex at Ovid6.4 miles1976
Edith B. Ford Memorial Library6.4 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001655 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Seneca 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.