Rockdale Community Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

“Rockdale Community Church is a historic church on New York State Route 8 in the hamlet of Rockdale, Chenango County, New York. It was built in 1860 and is a one-story rectangular wood-frame building, three bays long and three bays wide.”
Wikipedia article Rockdale Community Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chenango 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. NY 8, Rockdale, 13809
When was it listed? October 2005
Category. building
Town. Guilford town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 05001128 - 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Rockdale Community Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 14 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	43
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
11 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 June 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Storms near this property

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockdale, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. 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
June 2006	Flood	Rockdale	$2,000,000	no account filed
September 2011	Flood	Rockdale	$250,000	A record breaking flood occurred on the Unadilla River near Rockdale on September 8, 2011. The river crested at 14.22 feet at 10:45 AM. Widespread flooding occurred all along the reach of the river. This surpassed the previous record of 13.96 feet set during the June 2006 flood.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockdale	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a roadway.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockdale	-	SKYWARN storm spotters reported small hail.

Every storm recorded in Chenango 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.

1915 USGS Unadilla quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Unadilla quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Guilford quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1945 USGS Guilford quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton 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
Guildford Center Presbyterian Church	3.5 miles	2004
Guilford Center Cemetery	3.6 miles	2005
Jewell Family Homestead	4.8 miles	2017
Rockwells Mills Historic District	5.1 miles	2010
North Guilford Cemetery	6.2 miles	2020
Bainbridge Historic District	6.7 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001128 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chenango County	All 47 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.