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Photograph of Buck's Bridge Community Church
Photograph by OneEagle, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Buck's Bridge United Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Buck's Bridge Community Church, also (erroneously) known as Buck's Bridge United Methodist Church, was formerly a Methodist Episcopal church located at Buck's Bridge in St. The church later more closely followed the Congregational Church polity and theology.”

Wikipedia article Buck's Bridge Community Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2927 Cty Rte 14, Buck's Bridge, 13617
  • When was it listed? September 2004
  • Category. building
  • Town. Potsdam town
  • National Register reference number. 04000985 - 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

1910 to 1948

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Buck's Bridge United Methodist Church, surveyed 1948
Topographic sheet covering Buck's Bridge United Methodist Church, surveyed 1910

Fires near this property

80 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Buck's Bridge United Methodist Church between 2003 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined42
Arson/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning8
Natural5
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
20 August 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence 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 Buck's Bridge United Methodist Church: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Morley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Town of Madrid Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Madrid Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence 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
Harrison Grist Mill3.2 miles1982
Trinity Episcopal Chapel3.4 miles1990
First Congregational Church of Madrid3.7 miles2010
First Presbyterian Church of Dailey Ridge5.7 miles2002
French Family Farm6.2 miles1982
St. Lawrence County Government Complex7.2 miles2024

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000985 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lawrence CountyAll 83 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.