Sand Lake Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Sand Lake Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church at 2960 State Route 43 in Averill Park, Rensselaer County, New York. The church was built in 1805 and is a Federal period frame building.”
Wikipedia article Sand Lake Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 128 National Register listings published here for Rensselaer County · listed in 2004 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2960 NY 43, Averill Park, 12018
When was it listed? January 2004
Category. building
Town. Sand Lake town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 03001353 - 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

277 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Sand Lake Baptist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 292 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 52 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	136
Arson/incendiarism	52
Debris and open burning	43
Natural	20
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Sand Lake Baptist Church: 11 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Alps Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
C.E. Wicks Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
C.E. Wicks Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Dunns Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Dunns Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Edgewood Drive Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Edgewood Drive Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Morans Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Morans Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Reid Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this property

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Averill Park, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2001	Hail	Averill Park	$12,000	no account filed
August 1995	Hail	Averill Park	$2,000	no account filed
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Averill Park	-	Tree and wires were downed at Lake Avenue and Old Route 66.
September 2015	Flood	Averill Park	-	The center courtyard at Averill Park High School in Averill Park was inundated with water due to heavy rainfall. The drains could not handle the amount of water and backed up, leaving about a foot of water in the courtyard. A few inches of water came into the school hallways and classrooms through vents and doorways. As a result of the flooding, school was cancelled for the day and 1,100 students were sent home.
August 2014	Hail	Averill Park	-	Nickel size hail was reported during a thunderstorm at the intersection of State Route 43 and Gettle Road in Averill Park.
August 2011	Flood	Averill Park	-	Wynantskill Creek was reported flowing out of its banks with water on Thais Road at the intersection of Springer Road.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Averill Park	-	Trees and wires blown down.
June 2005	Hail	Averill Park	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Averill Park	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Averill Park	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Averill Park	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1893 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1925 USGS Troy quadrangle1:48000
1928 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Averill Park quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Albany 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
Albert R. Fox House	0.6 miles	2001
Newton-Taber-Martin Farm	4.0 miles	2016
Craver Farmstead	4.8 miles	1996
John Jr. Carner House	5.9 miles	2004
Garfield School	7.1 miles	1988
Marsh-Link-Pollock Farm	7.1 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001353 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rensselaer County	All 128 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.