Wanakena Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1919.

From the record

“Wanakena Presbyterian Church, also known as Mount Lebanon Presbyterian Church and Western Adirondack Presbyterian Church, is a historic Presbyterian church located at Wanakena in St. It was built in 1903 and is a "steepled ell" plan with its steepled entry tower located at the intersection of the two volumes.”
Wikipedia article Wanakena Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence 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. 32 Second St., Wanakena, 13695
When was it listed? September 2007
Category. building
Town. Fine town
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 07001015 - 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

1919 to 1999

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Wanakena Presbyterian Church, surveyed 1999

Topographic sheet covering Wanakena Presbyterian Church, surveyed 1919

Fires near this property

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Wanakena Presbyterian Church between 1993 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	18
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
27 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	JANACKS POINT FIRE
21 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	JOE INDIAN ISLAND FIRE
4 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
3 August 1997	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
29 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
27 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
22 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SITE 27 FIRE

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Wanakena Presbyterian Church: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Vader Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Benson Mines	Iron	Past Producer	1810, 1889, 1978
Dead Creek Deposits	Iron	Occurrence	1943

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this property

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wanakena, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2011: 3 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Wanakena	$125,000	no account filed
November 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wanakena	$2,000	Trees down along Route 61 in Wanakena.
July 2011	Hail	Wanakena	-	Dime size hail reported.
May 2009	Hail	Wanakena	-	Quarter size hail reported.
July 2007	Hail	Wanakena	-	Nickel size or greater hail reported by Wanakena Post Office.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1919 USGS Cranberry Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1921 USGS Cranberry Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1931 USGS Cranberry Lake quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Newton Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1999 USGS Newton Falls quadrangle1:24000

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Wanakena Footbridge	0.2 miles
	Knollwood	1.9 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001015 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lawrence County	All 83 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.