Willsboro Congregational Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Willsboro Congregational Church is a historic Congregational church on NY 22 in Willsboro, Essex County, New York. It was built in 1834 and is a simple rectangular limestone building with a gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Willsboro Congregational Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1984 · 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. NY 22, Willsboro, 12996
When was it listed? May 1984
Category. building
Town. Willsboro town
National Register reference number. 84002391 - 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.

Then and now

1895 to 1999

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Willsboro Congregational Church, surveyed 1999

Topographic sheet covering Willsboro Congregational Church, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

56 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Willsboro Congregational Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
1 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
13 August 2002	Natural	3.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	SHANTY BROOK FIRE
10 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Willsboro Congregational Church: 19 past producers, 2 producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Wollastonite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Fox Hill Quarry	Wollastonite, Garnet	Past Producer	1810, 1939, 1982
Fox Knoll	Garnet, Wollastonite	Producer	Grossularite, Wollastonite
Interpace/ Willsboro, N.Y.	Wollastonite, Garnet	Unknown
Irvin Calkins Graphite Prospect	Graphite	Prospect
Unnamed Quarry	Stone	Past Producer	Surface
Unnamed Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Willsboro Mine	Emery	Past Producer	Emery
Elsworth Diopside Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Prospect
Northern Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1880, 1890
Cabot Minerals Div. Deposit	Wollastonite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willsboro, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$25,000	Damage to Willsboro Bay Marina as well as several large trees.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$20,000	Several trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds across Willsboro.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$15,000	no account filed
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$10,000	Multiple trees reported downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$10,000	Several reports of trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$5,000	Trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$5,000	Several trees up to half foot in diameter downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$5,000	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$5,000	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$5,000	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Willsboro	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Essex 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.

1895 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1941 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1980 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:25000
1986 USGS Lake Champlain South quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1999 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:25000

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
Willsboro School, The	0.3 miles	2010
Flat Rock Camp	1.4 miles	2006
Sheldon-Owens Farm	1.5 miles	1993
Abraham Aiken House	2.0 miles	1989
Edgewater Farm	2.7 miles	1988
Ligonier Point Historic District	3.8 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002391 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex County	All 114 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.