Dexter Universalist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“The Dexter Universalist Church, located on the northeast corner of Brown and Kirby Streets in Dexter, New York, is a well-preserved, "modest" Greek Revival-style church that was built in 1841. In a 2002 review of the church, then vacant, it was deemed to retain "a substantial degree of historic integrity with its original form, fabric, and fenestration intact." It has leaded stained glass windows.”
Wikipedia article Dexter Universalist Church (Dexter, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Brown and Kirby Sts., Dexter, 13634
When was it listed? September 2003
Category. building
Town. Brownville town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 03000249 - 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

167 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Dexter Universalist Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 21 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	106
Arson/incendiarism	21
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dexter Universalist Church: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Chamont Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Surface
	Limerick Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dexter, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2011	Flood	Dexter	1 killed, $250,000	no account filed
April 2017	Flood	Dexter	$20,000	no account filed
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Dexter	$15,000	no account filed
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dexter	$10,000	Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Dexter	$5,000	Several trees were down with damage to a camper and tents at Black River Bay Campground.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dexter	$1,000	Trees were downed.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

6 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.

1900 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Dexter quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Dexter quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1985 USGS Cape Vincent 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
Brownville Hotel	3.0 miles	1980
Gen. Jacob Brown Mansion	3.0 miles	1980
Conklin Farm	3.1 miles	1989
William Archer House	3.1 miles	1980
Arthur Walrath House	3.1 miles	1980
St. Paul's Church	3.1 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000249 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 144 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.