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Photograph of Sylvan Beach Union Chapel
Photograph by DPiraino, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sylvan Beach Union Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Sylvan Beach Union Chapel is a historic interdenominational church building located at Sylvan Beach in Oneida County, New York. It opened on July 3, 1887, and worship services have been held there every summer since then.”

Wikipedia article Sylvan Beach Union Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Oneida County · listed in 2009 · 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. 805 Park Ave., Sylvan Beach, 13157
  • When was it listed? July 2009
  • Category. building
  • Town. Vienna town
  • National Register reference number. 09000560 - 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

66 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Sylvan Beach Union Chapel between 1996 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural13
Debris and open burning7
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sylvan Beach Union Chapel: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Coonrod PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this property

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sylvan Beach, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flood. 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 2004Thunderstorm WindSylvan Beach$100,000Intense straight-line thunderstorm winds produced scattered tree damage from the eastern shore of Oneida Lake east-northeast to Remsen. The greatest amount of damage occurred near Westernville and also about 5 miles northwest of Rome. Wind speeds up to 100 mph were estimated in these locations. Most of the damage that occurred was to trees and power lines.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindSylvan Beach$50,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSylvan Beach$40,000Trees and wires were blown down on a house with a possible structural collapse.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSylvan Beach$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down multiple trees and wires.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindSylvan Beach$10,000Trees and power lines downed in Sylvan Beach, Oneida Castle, Marcy, Whitestown, Annsville, Verona, Floyd, and Westmoreland.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSylvan Beach$5,000Trees were blown down with power outages.
September 2013HailSylvan Beach$5,000Hail was estimated by picture to be at least 2 inches in diameter. Picture was posted to Jill Reale's facebook page via WKTV-TV.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSylvan Beach$5,000Numerous trees were blown down.
April 2011HailSylvan Beach$5,000Trees and wires were also blown down.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindSylvan Beach$5,000A squall line moved across eastern New York on the afternoon and evening of August 2nd resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of the region. There were numerous reports of large tree limbs, trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds. The areas hardest hit were Herkimer, Montgomery, Oneida, Otsego and Washington Counties. In all over 15,000 customers were left without power.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSylvan Beach$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down wires on houses per a couple of fire dispatch calls.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSylvan Beach$3,000Strong thunderstorms knocked down trees and wires onto the road.
January 2018FloodSylvan Beach-Ice jam flooding was occurring along the Fish Creek in the vicinity of Vienna, Sylvan Beach, New London and Taberg. The ice jam was causing flooding of several homes along Vienna Road, Haskins Road and also Cove Road. Evacuations were taking place.
July 2009HailSylvan Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09000560 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oneida CountyAll 90 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.