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Photograph of Brick Church Corners
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Brick Church Corners

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1952.

From the record

“Ontario Heritage Square, officially known as Heritage Square Museum, is a museum in Ontario, New York in Wayne County, New York. It is located at the site of the Brick Church Corners, a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.”

Wikipedia article Ontario Heritage Square, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Jct. of Brick Church and Ontario Center Rds., Ontario, 14519
  • When was it listed? June 1974
  • Category. district
  • Town. Ontario town
  • National Register reference number. 74001317 - 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

108 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Brick Church Corners between 2000 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined59
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning11
Natural10
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Brick Church Corners: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Limestone, General. 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
Walworth Quarry and PlantLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Ontario Iron Ore Co. WorkingsIronPast Producer
Ontario OpeningsIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ontario, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 2003Tornado (F1)Ontario$150,000no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindOntario$25,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindOntario$20,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindOntario$15,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindOntario$15,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOntario$15,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOntario$15,000no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindOntario$10,000A tree was reported down on a trailer home at 2275 Route 104.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindOntario$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
April 2006HailOntario$8,000no account filed
August 1998HailOntario$7,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindOntario$5,000Several small trees downed.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindOntario$500Tree downed, blocking road.

Every storm recorded in Wayne County

Maps showing this location

5 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

4 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 Presbyterian Church of Ontario Center2.2 miles1998
Isaac Shipley House6.2 miles2022
Gates Hall and Pultneyville Public Square6.2 miles2000
Pultneyville Historic District6.4 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74001317 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne CountyAll 40 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.