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Photograph of First Church of Evans Complex
Photograph by Pubdog, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First Church of Evans Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“The First Church of Evans Complex is a historic Non-denominational church complex located at Derby in Erie County, New York. The 5.5-acre (2.2 ha) property includes the church, cemeteries, farmhouse (manse), and historic Ingersoll barn with later additions that serves as a community clubhouse.”

Wikipedia article First Church of Evans Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 2006 · 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 4 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 7431 Erie Rd., Derby, 14047
  • When was it listed? April 2006
  • Category. building
  • Town. Evans town
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 06000257 - 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

1899 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 61 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 Church of Evans Complex, surveyed 1960
Topographic sheet covering First Church of Evans Complex, surveyed 1899

Fires near this property

191 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of First Church of Evans Complex between 2000 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined97
Natural31
Arson/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning23
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
7 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Derby, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2014Flash FloodDerby$50,000no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindDerby$1,000Uprooted trees were reported on m-ping.

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

8 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

4 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
Pioneer Cemetery2.3 miles2012
Graycliff2.9 miles1998
US Post Office-Angola3.1 miles1988
Lustron House Westchester Deluxe Model M02 #013107.6 miles2023

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000257 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Erie CountyAll 283 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.