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Photograph of Young Memorial Church
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Young Memorial Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“Young Memorial Church, also known as Brier Hill Congregational Church, is a historic Congregational church in the hamlet of Brier Hill in Morristown, St. It was built in 1907-1908 and is a one-story, stone and wood shingled church building in the Arts and Crafts style.”

Wikipedia article Young Memorial Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence County · listed in 2011 · 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. Jct. of School St. & NY 37, Brier Hill, 13614
  • When was it listed? May 2011
  • Category. building
  • Town. Morristown town
  • National Register reference number. 11000293 - 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.

Then and now

1906 to 1948

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 42 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Young Memorial Church, surveyed 1948
Topographic sheet covering Young Memorial Church, surveyed 1906

Fires near this property

97 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Young Memorial Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined49
Arson/incendiarism27
Debris and open burning16
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
5 September 2016Debris and open burning1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2016Debris and open burning1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Young Memorial Church: 10 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, Lead. 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
Mineral Point DepositLead, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Unnamed Quartz Syenite QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionPast Producer
Unnamed Sandstone QuarryFlagstone, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Sandstone QuarryFlagstone, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Sandstone QuarryFlagstone, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stout Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stout PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stouts Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Stouts Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this property

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brier Hill, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBrier Hill$10,000Several trees and power lines reported downed by thunderstorm winds in the Morristown - Brier Hill vicinity.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindBrier Hill$5,000Tree down on utility lines caused by thunderstorm winds on Sand street at Ireland road.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindBrier Hill$5,000Trees and powerlines downed by thunderstorm winds in Brier Hill.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence 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.

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
Morristown Schoolhouse3.6 miles1982
Jacob Ford House3.6 miles1982
United Methodist Church3.7 miles1982
Paschal Miller House3.8 miles1982
Samuel Stocking House3.8 miles1982
Wright's Stone Store3.9 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000293 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lawrence CountyAll 83 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.