Densmore Methodist Church of the Thousand Islands

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Densmore Methodist Church of the Thousand Islands is a historic Methodist church located at Alexandria in Jefferson County, New York. It was built in 1900 and consists of a square block with an engaged round corner bell tower in the Shingle Style.”
Wikipedia article Densmore Methodist Church of the Thousand Islands, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1988 · 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. Rt. 100 at Densmore Bay, Alexandria, 13640
When was it listed? May 1988
Category. building
Town. Alexandria town
Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
National Register reference number. 88000591 - 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

90 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Densmore Methodist Church of the Thousand Islands between 2002 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 15 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	53
Arson/incendiarism	15
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	6
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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Densmore Methodist Church of the Thousand Islands: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Granite. 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
J. Leopold and Co. Quarry	Granite	Past Producer	Unknown
Fern Occurrence	Iron	Occurrence
Wolfe Hole Occurrence	Iron	Occurrence	1945

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1903 USGS Alexandria Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Alexandria Bay quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Alexandria Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Alexandria Bay quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gouverneur 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
Longue Vue Island	1.4 miles	1982
Ingleside	1.5 miles	1980
Church of Saint Lawrence	1.9 miles	1997
Cornwall Brothers' Store	2.0 miles	1975
Holland Library	2.0 miles	2002
George C. Boldt Yacht House	2.2 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000591 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 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.