Sparta First Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Sparta First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Groveland Station in Livingston County, New York. The building is a simple but sophisticated combination of Arts and Crafts principals and freely styled Tudor Gothic detailing executed with modern building materials.”
Wikipedia article Sparta First Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 2007 · 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. 4687 Scottsburg Rd., Groveland Station, 14462
When was it listed? January 2007
Category. building
Town. Groveland town
National Register reference number. 06001209 - 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

110 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Sparta First Presbyterian Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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	71
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	9
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
23 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 September 2010	Other causes	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sparta First Presbyterian Church: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Chester L. Mcmaster S & G Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Chester L. Mcmaster S & G Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kennedy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston 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.

1905 USGS Nunda quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Sonyea quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Sonyea quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Sonyea quadrangle1:24000 - 2 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
Black and White Farm Barn	2.1 miles	1988
Boyd & Parker Park and Groveland Ambuscade	4.2 miles	2009
Sliker Cobblestone House	5.1 miles	2007
Engleside	5.5 miles	2009
First Presbyterian Church of Tuscarora	5.7 miles	2004
Conesus Amusement Hall	6.0 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001209 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.