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Forest Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Forest Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Lyons Falls in Lewis County, New York. It was built in 1894 and is a one-story, brown stained, eclectic, pitched roof building with a front-facing gable, a unique square bell tower with flared eaves, and a porte cochere.”

Wikipedia article Forest Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lewis 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. 4109 Center St., Lyon Falls, 13368
  • When was it listed? September 2004
  • Category. building
  • Town. West Turin town
  • Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
  • Architect. Albert W. Fuller
  • National Register reference number. 04001060 - 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

38 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Forest Presbyterian Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined13
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2003Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Forest Presbyterian Church: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron. 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
Port LeydenZirconium, Titanium, IronProspect1952
Port Leyden MineTitanium, Metal, IronOccurrence
Callanan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hoch Brothers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lyonsdale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town of Leyden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
West Turin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Maps showing this location

10 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
Gould Mansion Complexunder 500 feet1978
Pines, The0.4 miles2007
Wildwood Cemetery and Mary Lyon Fisher Memorial Chapel1.0 miles2011
Collinsville Cemetery1.7 miles2014
St. Mark's Church2.6 miles1998
Jonathan C. Collins House and Cemetery4.4 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001060 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis CountyAll 50 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.