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Photograph of First Presbyterian Church of Tuscarora
Photograph by Pubdog, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First Presbyterian Church of Tuscarora

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“First Presbyterian Church of Tuscarora is a historic Presbyterian church located at Tuscarora in Livingston County, New York. It was built about 1844 and is a three- by five-bay Greek Revival style frame building.”

Wikipedia article First Presbyterian Church of Tuscarora, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 8082 Main St., Tuscarora, 14510
  • When was it listed? January 2004
  • Category. building
  • Town. Mount Morris town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 03001400 - 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

105 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Tuscarora between 2002 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined54
Natural19
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking8
Debris and open burning6
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
19 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Tuscarora: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chester L. Mcmaster S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Chester L. Mcmaster S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kennedy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tuscarora, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Thunderstorm WindTuscarora$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTuscarora$2,000Trees and power lines were reported down in the Town of Nunda.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTuscarora$2,000Trees and power lines were reported down in Mount Morris.
June 2024Flash FloodTuscarora-Road impassable due to flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Black and White Farm Barn3.8 miles1988
Elmwood4.8 miles2015
Nunda Village Historic District5.1 miles2025
Union Block5.2 miles2000
Sparta First Presbyterian Church5.7 miles2007
House at No. 176 South Main Street5.9 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03001400 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston CountyAll 92 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.