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Photograph of Spencerport Methodist Church
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Spencerport Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Spencerport Methodist Church, also known as Spencerport United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church located at Spencerport in Monroe County, New York, United States. It is a Romanesque style, three- by seven-bay church building constructed of brick on a foundation of Medina sandstone.”

Wikipedia article Spencerport Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2008 · 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 Amity St., Spencerport, 14559
  • When was it listed? April 2008
  • Category. building
  • Town. Ogden town
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 08000274 - 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

438 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 438 fires within 5 miles of Spencerport Methodist Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 244 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 105 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/undetermined153
Smoking109
Arson/incendiarism105
Debris and open burning28
Natural18
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Spencerport Methodist Church: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brockport QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chester Peacock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gp-9 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pease PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pinehill Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Union Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Union Street PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spencerport, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2015: 9 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003Thunderstorm WindSpencerport$75,000no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindSpencerport$50,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSpencerport$35,000The media reported ten power poles downed by thunderstorm winds in Spencerport.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSpencerport$25,000no account filed
April 2004HailSpencerport$25,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSpencerport$15,000Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSpencerport$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSpencerport$15,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSpencerport$8,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindSpencerport$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Adams-Ryan House2.7 miles1985
William A. Payne House3.6 miles2012
William Covert Cobblestone Farmhouse4.4 miles1995
Chase Cobblestone Farmhouse5.0 miles1995
Greece Memorial Hall5.5 miles1998
Soldiers' Memorial Tower6.0 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000274 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe CountyAll 233 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.