BlockBefore
Photograph of First Free Will Baptist Church of Pike
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First Free Will Baptist Church of Pike

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“First Free Will Baptist Church of Pike is a historic Baptist church located at Pike, Wyoming County, New York. It was built in 1881, and is a one-story, L-shaped brick building with a steep gable roof in a Late Victorian Gothic style.”

Wikipedia article First Free Will Baptist Church of Pike, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Wyoming County · listed in 2012 · 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. 72 Main St., Pike, 14024
  • When was it listed? June 2012
  • Category. building
  • Town. Pike town
  • National Register reference number. 12000369 - 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of First Free Will Baptist Church of Pike between 2002 and 2018, burning about 48 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2013Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 May 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of First Free Will Baptist Church of Pike: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
Unnamed Salt WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wyoming County

Storms near this property

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pike, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
August 1994Thunderstorm WindPike$50,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPike$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPike$15,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindPike$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindPike$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
December 2011Thunderstorm WindPike$10,000Emergency Managment reported tree damage in Pike.
July 2006HailPike$10,000no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindPike$10,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindPike$8,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindPike$1,000Trees were downed in the area.
September 2024HailPike-Video showing hail about the size of golf balls.
September 2024HailPike-Public photos of large hail, relayed by WIVB-TV.
September 2024HailPike-Video showing numerous large hail with at least an inch diameter falling in Pike.

Every storm recorded in Wyoming 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

2 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
First Universalist Church of Portageville5.7 miles2008
Seneca Council House6.1 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000369 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wyoming CountyAll 26 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.