Sennett Federated Church and Parsonage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Sennett Federated Church and Parsonage is a historic church formed in 1929 from the combining of Baptist and Congregational churches located in the hamlet of Sennett, in the town of Sennett in Cayuga County, New York. Both congregations were committed to the abolition movement and the Underground Railroad.”
Wikipedia article Sennett Federated Church and Parsonage, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Cayuga 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 777 Weedsport-Sennett Rd., Sennett, 13021
When was it listed? October 2005
Category. building
Also known as. Freedom Trail, Abolitionism, and African American Life in Central New York MPS
Town. Sennett town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 05001130 - 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

155 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Sennett Federated Church and Parsonage between 2000 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 30 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	91
Arson/incendiarism	30
Smoking	9
Debris and open burning	9
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Other causes	1
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
8 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sennett Federated Church and Parsonage: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 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
Franklin Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Franklin Street Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Harkington Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Harkington Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sennett Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Walburger Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this property

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sennett, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Sennett	$50,000	no account filed
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sennett	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down numerous trees and wires. Power poles were damaged as well.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sennett	$10,000	Parts of East Brutus Street were blocked by trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Sennett	$8,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over several trees in the vicinity of 2793 Tanner Road.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sennett	$2,500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sennett	$2,500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees near Stevens Road and Grant Avenue.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sennett	$1,000	Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Sennett	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree.
June 2008	Hail	Sennett	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cayuga County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1899 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1943 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Auburn 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
Orrin W. Burritt House	3.8 miles	2007
First Baptist Church of Weedsport	3.8 miles	2002
Centreport Aqueduct	3.9 miles	2000
Frank and Eliza Tryon House	4.1 miles	2014
Charles Chauncy Dwight House	4.2 miles	2015
Willard Memorial Chapel-Welch Memorial Hall	4.4 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001130 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cayuga County	All 71 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.