Oppenheim and St. Johnsville Union Society Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Johnsville Union Society Church, also known as Crum Creek Evangelical Lutheran Church, is a historic Lutheran church at 110 County Highway 108 in Crum Creek, Fulton County, New York. It was built in 1853 and is a rectangular frame building, three bays wide and five bays deep.”
Wikipedia article Oppenheim and St. Johnsville Union Society Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Fulton 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

Address. 110 County HWY 108, Crum Creek, 13452
When was it listed? July 2010
Category. building
Town. Oppenheim town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 10000485 - 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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Oppenheim and St. Johnsville Union Society Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 11 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	35
Debris and open burning	20
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
3 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	LITTLE FALLS
28 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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 Oppenheim and St. Johnsville Union Society Church: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Moyer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
St. Johnsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
St. Johnsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Fulton 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.

1901 USGS Lassellsville quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Lassellsville quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1945 USGS Lassellsville quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Oppenheim quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

1 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
	Dolge Company Factory Complex	5.0 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000485 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton County	All 25 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.