First Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“First Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at Sandy Creek in Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1917-1918 and is a frame church with an octagonal plan and a pyramidal roof.”
Wikipedia article First Baptist Church (Sandy Creek, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Oswego 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Harwood Dr., Sandy Creek, 13083
When was it listed? November 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Sandy Creek MRA
Town. Sandy Creek town
National Register reference number. 88002218 - 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

76 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of First Baptist Church between 1999 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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	49
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2

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
7 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
20 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of First Baptist Church: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Coffin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Coffin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lacona Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lacona Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Sandy Creek Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this property

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandy Creek, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandy Creek	$100,000	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandy Creek	$12,000	no account filed
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandy Creek	$10,000	Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down.
September 2010	Flood	Sandy Creek	$8,000	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandy Creek	$5,000	Several trees and wires downed in Sandy Creek.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandy Creek	$2,000	Multiple trees were downed.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandy Creek	$2,000	Several trees and powerlines were reported to be down via social media.

Every storm recorded in Oswego County

Maps showing this location

8 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 Pulaski quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1942 USGS Sandy Creek quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Sandy Creek quadrangle1:31680
1958 USGS Sandy Creek quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Pulaski 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
Smith H. Barlow House	0.1 miles	1988
Methodist Church	0.3 miles	1988
Newton M. Pitt House	0.3 miles	1988
Lacona Railroad Station and Depot	0.4 miles	2002
Lacona Clock Tower	0.4 miles	1988
Sandy Creek Historic District	0.4 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002218 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oswego County	All 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.