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Photograph of Owasco Reformed Church
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Owasco Reformed Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Owasco Reformed Church, also known as Reformed Dutch Church of Owasco, is a historic Dutch Reformed church located at Owasco in Cayuga County, New York. It was built in 1811-1815 and is a large, rectangular, Federal-era frame meeting house at the core of the hamlet of Owasco.”

Wikipedia article Owasco Reformed Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Cayuga County · listed in 2010 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 5105 Rte 38A (E. Lake Rd.), Owasco, 13021
  • When was it listed? April 2010
  • Category. building
  • Town. Owasco town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 10000223 - 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

61 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Owasco Reformed Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism14
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this property

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Owasco, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindOwasco$5,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindOwasco$2,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in a tree being knocked over on Valentine Road.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindOwasco$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on Valentine Road.
March 2007FloodOwasco-Minor flooding occurred on the Owasco Lake Outlet at Auburn from the evening hours of March 15th to the morning of the 18th. The lake outlet at Auburn crested at 5.3 feet which is .3 feet over the flood stage of 5 feet. Over an inch of rain combining with snowmelt caused the minor flooding.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindOwasco-Several trees were blown down on Melrose Road.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindOwasco-Emergency management reported trees down in Owasco.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindOwasco-Thunderstorm winds caused falling tree limbs to knock down power lines. 75 homes were left without power in Owasco and Fleming.
August 2010HailOwasco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cayuga County

Maps showing this location

11 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
Lakeside Park4.8 miles1989
Sand Beach Church5.3 miles1975
Harriet Tubman House6.2 miles1999
Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged6.4 miles1974
South Street Area Historic District7.1 miles1991
Auburn Button Works and Logan Silk Mills7.1 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000223 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cayuga CountyAll 71 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.
  • 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.