Delphi Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Delphi Baptist Church, also known as Delphi Falls United Church, is a historic Baptist church located at Delphi Falls, New York, Onondaga County, New York. It was built in 1815 and is the only surviving nearly-original church in Onondaga County surviving from the Federal period.”
Wikipedia article Delphi Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 178 National Register listings published here for Onondaga County · listed in 1979 · 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 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Oran-Delphi Rd., Delphi Falls, 13051
When was it listed? August 1979
Category. building
Town. Pompey town
National Register reference number. 79001610 - 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Delphi Baptist Church between 1993 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 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	31
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
30 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Onondaga 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 Delphi Baptist Church: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cazenovia Ready Mix Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this property

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delphi Falls, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 1 hail, 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
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Delphi Falls	$8,000	A swath of 70 trees were blown down. There was structural damage done to a home as a large tree branch fell through a garage.
July 2008	Hail	Delphi Falls	-	A 55 mph wind gust was also estimated.

Every storm recorded in Onondaga County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1897 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Oran quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Oran quadrangle1:31680
1943 USGS Oran quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Oran quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Norwich 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
Delphi Village School	0.2 miles	1986
Pompey Centre District No. 10 Schoolhouse	3.7 miles	1998
Fabius Village Historic District	4.8 miles	2000
Drover's Tavern	6.2 miles	2003
Oran District No. 22 Schoolhouse	7.1 miles	1998
Oran Community Church	7.1 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001610 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Onondaga County	All 178 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.