Wells Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

“Wells Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church on Main Street in Wells, Hamilton County, New York. It was built in 1845 and is a single-story, three-by-four-bay, post and beam frame building measuring approximately 36 by 41 feet.”
Wikipedia article Wells Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Hamilton 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. Main St., Wells, 12190
When was it listed? September 1988
Category. building
Town. Wells town
National Register reference number. 88001440 - 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

1907 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Wells Baptist Church, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Wells Baptist Church, surveyed 1907

Fires near this property

25 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Wells Baptist Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 8 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
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	INDIAN LAKE ISLANDS
3 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
22 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this property

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wells, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Wells	$4,000	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wells	-	A state official reported trees down in Wells, NY.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Wells	-	Tree was downed onto wires.
July 2014	Hail	Wells	-	Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Wells.
May 2013	Hail	Wells	-	Local media reported ping pong ball size hail from a thunderstorm in Wells.
May 2011	Hail	Wells	-	Penny size hail was reported in Wells during a thunderstorm.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Wells	-	Trees were reported blown down by strong thunderstorm winds in Wells.
May 2006	Hail	Wells	-	Three quarter inch hail was reported at Wells.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wells	-	Powerlines were blown down in Wells.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wells	-	Trees were blown down onto Route 8.
November 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wells	-	Tree and wires reported down near Wells and Raquette Lake.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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.

1907 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1990 USGS Wells quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS Wells quadrangle1:25000

Listed places nearby

3 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
Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-90 (Speculator)	7.7 miles	2016
Hamilton County Courthouse Complex	7.9 miles	1992
Grace Methodist Church Complex	8.0 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001440 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton County	All 24 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.
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.