East Hounsfield Christian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“East Hounsfield Christian Church is a historic church located at Hounsfield in Jefferson County, New York, United States. It was built about 1844 and is a two-story, three bay wide and three bay deep, gable front frame structure with Greek Revival features.”
Wikipedia article East Hounsfield Christian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1989 · 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 3, Hounsfield, 13601
When was it listed? October 1989
Category. building
Also known as. Hounsfield MRA
Town. Hounsfield town
National Register reference number. 89001621 - 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

341 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 341 fires within 5 miles of East Hounsfield Christian Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 224 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 78 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	169
Arson/incendiarism	78
Debris and open burning	32
Natural	23
Smoking	21
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Smoking	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 East Hounsfield Christian Church: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Limerick Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Brookside Drive Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Brookside Drive Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

12 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 Watertown quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1908 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:62500
1909 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Watertown 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
Conklin Farm	1.1 miles	1989
Vogt House	2.4 miles	1980
Brownville Hotel	2.4 miles	1980
William Archer House	2.4 miles	1980
Arthur Walrath House	2.4 miles	1980
St. Paul's Church	2.6 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89001621 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.