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Photograph of Trinity Church
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Trinity Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Trinity Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Constantia in Oswego County, New York. It is a small frame vernacular Federal style structure completed in 1831-1834.”

Wikipedia article Trinity Church (Constantia, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Oswego County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 49, Constantia, 13044
  • When was it listed? October 1982
  • Category. building
  • Town. Constantia town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82001231 - 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

96 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Trinity Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined48
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural7
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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 Trinity Church: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar. 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
Overlook QuarryFeldsparPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this property

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Constantia, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003Flash FloodConstantia$25,000no account filed
September 2016Thunderstorm WindConstantia$20,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindConstantia$15,000Widespread damage was reported with numerous trees and wires down.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindConstantia$15,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindConstantia$15,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindConstantia$12,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindConstantia$10,000Multiple trees and wires downed across town.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindConstantia$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindConstantia$10,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindConstantia$10,000no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindConstantia$8,000Law enforcement reported trees down blocking roads.
September 2010FloodConstantia$8,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindConstantia$8,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindConstantia$5,000Multiple reports of trees downed.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindConstantia$5,000Reports of multiple trees down in the Town of Constantia.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindConstantia$2,000Trees and wires downed in the Town of Constantia.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindConstantia$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindConstantia$2,000Trees and wires were downed.

Every storm recorded in Oswego County

Maps showing this location

10 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
St. James' Church6.4 miles1996
Fort Brewerton6.7 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82001231 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oswego CountyAll 93 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.