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Photograph of Otter Lake Community Church
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Otter Lake Community Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1912.

From the record

“The Otter Lake Community Church, built in 1861 in Hawkinsville, New York, is now located on the east side of Route 28 in Otter Lake, Oneida County, New York. It was moved to Otter Lake in 1921 and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2004.”

Wikipedia article Otter Lake Community Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Oneida 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 28, Otter Lake, 13338
  • When was it listed? July 2004
  • Category. building
  • Town. Forestport town
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 04000704 - 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.

Then and now

1912 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Otter Lake Community Church, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet covering Otter Lake Community Church, surveyed 1912

Fires near this property

20 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Otter Lake Community Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Natural1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBRANDY LAKE FIRE
7 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersGULL LAKE
31 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this property

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Otter Lake, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 3 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 1993Thunderstorm WindOtter Lake$5,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOtter Lake$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on Lakeview Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindOtter Lake$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto wires.

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000704 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oneida CountyAll 90 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.
  • 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.