Seneca Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Seneca Presbyterian Church, also known as the "Number Nine" Church, is a historic Presbyterian church located at Stanley in Ontario County, New York. The original section of the church was constructed in 1838.”
Wikipedia article Seneca Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Ontario County · listed in 1973 · 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. E of Stanley off NY 245 on Number Nine Rd., Stanley, 14456
When was it listed? May 1973
Category. building
Town. Seneca town
National Register reference number. 73001242 - 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

120 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Seneca Presbyterian Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 25 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	57
Arson/incendiarism	25
Smoking	13
Debris and open burning	9
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Ontario County

Storms near this property

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stanley, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2014	Flash Flood	Stanley	$35,000	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Stanley	$8,000	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Stanley	$5,000	no account filed
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Stanley	$2,000	Trees and power lines were reported down.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Stanley	$1,000	Power lines downed on roadway due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Ontario County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1902 USGS Phelps quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Stanley quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1952 USGS Stanley quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Canandaigua 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
Levi Barden Cobblestone Farmhouse	2.4 miles	2003
Rippey Cobblestone Farmhouse	2.5 miles	1992
Thomas Barron House	4.1 miles	1988
Belhurst Castle	4.4 miles	1987
Nester House	4.7 miles	1984
Ashcroft	4.7 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001242 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ontario County	All 78 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.