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Photograph of First Union Protestant Church of Mountain View
Photograph by OneEagle, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First Union Protestant Church of Mountain View

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“First Union Protestant Church of Mountain View is a historic church located at 7 Church Road in Bellmont, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1915-1916, and is a one-story, rectangular, meetinghouse-style church.”

Wikipedia article First Union Protestant Church of Mountain View, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2005 · 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. 7 Church Rd., Bellmont, 12969
  • When was it listed? March 2005
  • Category. building
  • Town. Bellmont town
  • National Register reference number. 05000162 - 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

1906 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering First Union Protestant Church of Mountain View, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering First Union Protestant Church of Mountain View, surveyed 1906

Fires near this property

22 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of First Union Protestant Church of Mountain View between 1999 and 2013, burning about 21 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersOLD INDIAN CAMP
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2007Natural1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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 First Union Protestant Church of Mountain View: 4 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Briggs ProspectIronOccurrenceReplacement
Briggs ProspectIronProspect
Ore Bed ProspectIronOccurrenceReplacement
Orebed ProspectIronProspect
Owl's Head MineIronPast ProducerReplacement
Owls Head MineIronProspect
Studley Hill Property DepositIronProspect

Every working recorded in Franklin 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

2 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
Debar Pond Lodge5.8 miles2014
Duane Methodist Episcopal Church6.7 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000162 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin CountyAll 86 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.