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Union Meeting House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Union Meeting House, also known as the Millens Bay Union Church, is a historic church located at Millens Bay in the Town of Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, New York. It was built between 1869 and 1871 as a cooperative Episcopal and Methodist union church, as a mission of St.”

Wikipedia article Union Meeting House (Cape Vincent, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1985 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Millens Bay Rd., Cape Vincent, 13618
  • When was it listed? September 1985
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Cape Vincent Town and Village MRA
  • Town. Cape Vincent town
  • National Register reference number. 85002479 - 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

25 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Union Meeting House between 2003 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Natural1

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
4 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 July 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Union Meeting House: 2 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bombard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
St Lawrence PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cape Vincent, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$15,000no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$5,000Trees and powerlines downed in Cape Vincent.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$2,000Trees down to the southwest of Cape Vincent.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

6 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Xavier Chevalier House1.0 miles1985
George Reynolds House1.1 miles1985
Claude Vautrin House2.0 miles1985
Warren Wilson House3.3 miles1985
Joseph Docteur House3.7 miles1985
Remy Dezengremel House4.7 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85002479 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 144 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.