First Presbyterian Church of Springport

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Cayuga County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 178 Cayuga St., Union Springs, 13160
When was it listed? March 2025
Category. building
Town. Springport town
National Register reference number. 100011517 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

40 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Springport between 2003 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 July 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Cayuga 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 First Presbyterian Church of Springport: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Cayuga Junction Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Cross Roads Station Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Hibiscus Point Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Union Springs	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cayuga 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.

1899 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1943 USGS Union Springs quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Union Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Auburn 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
Howland, Charles- William H. Chase House	0.2 miles	2005
Almeron Durkee House	0.7 miles	2005
William Richardson House	3.0 miles	2005
Peter Yawger House	3.3 miles	2004
Hutchinson Homestead	5.2 miles	2009
North Street Friends Meetinghouse	5.9 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011517 in Record Group 79.
Cayuga County	All 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.
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.