First Presbyterian Church of Avon

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 5605 Avon-Lima Rd., East Avon, 14414
When was it listed? January 2005
Category. building
Town. Avon town
Architectural style. Federal architecture, Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 04001444 - 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

109 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Avon between 2000 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 26 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	48
Arson/incendiarism	26
Debris and open burning	15
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
21 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Avon: 7 producers, 4 past producers. 7 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
East Avon Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Halpin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Halpin Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Number 1 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Number 2 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plant Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Treat Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
West River Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Avon, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 3 hail. 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
April 2025	Hail	East Avon	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	East Avon	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	East Avon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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.

1901 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1934 USGS Rush quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Rush quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Rush quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1983 USGS Canandaigua 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
Avon Inn	1.9 miles	1991
Avon Village Historic District	1.9 miles	2022
Barber-Mulligan Farm	2.0 miles	1980
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Avon	2.0 miles	2005
Hall's Opera Block	2.0 miles	2006
Aaron Barber Memorial Building	2.1 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001444 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston County	All 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.