Pine Grove Community Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1911.

From the record

“Pine Grove Community Church is a historic non-denominational, Christian chapel located at Pine Grove in Lewis County, New York. It was built in 1895 and is a two-story, wood-frame building three bays in width and five bays deep.”
Wikipedia article Pine Grove Community Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lewis 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. Austin Rd. & Pine Grove Rd., Pine Grove, 13343
When was it listed? August 2009
Category. building
Town. Watson town
National Register reference number. 09000633 - 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

53 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove Community Church between 2001 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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	28
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	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 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	INDIAN PIPE FIRE
6 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	WATERLINE FIRE
5 July 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pine Grove Community Church: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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
Gyore Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gyore Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hoch Brothers Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Waterworks Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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.

1911 USGS Lowville quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1913 USGS Lowville quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Lowville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Watertown 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
Martinsburg Common School District #4	4.3 miles	2022
Gen. Walter Martin House	4.7 miles	2008
Martinsburg Town Hall	4.7 miles	2001
First Lewis County Clerk's Office	4.8 miles	2017
Old Lowville Cemetery	5.9 miles	2016
Lowville & Beaver River Railroad Historic District	6.0 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000633 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis County	All 50 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.