St. John's Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1950.

From the record

“John's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Youngstown in Niagara County, New York. It is a Gothic Revival style board and batten frame church constructed in 1878.”
Wikipedia article St. John's Episcopal Church (Youngstown, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Niagara County · listed in 1990 · 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. 117 Main St., Youngstown, 14174
When was it listed? May 1990
Category. building
Town. Porter town
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 90000687 - 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

53 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of St. John's Episcopal Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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	41
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Youngstown, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 1 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
June 2019	Flood	Youngstown	$1,000,000	no account filed
May 2019	Flood	Youngstown	$1,000,000	no account filed
July 2019	Flood	Youngstown	$500,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Youngstown	$250,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Youngstown	$150,000	no account filed
August 2019	Flood	Youngstown	$25,000	no account filed
October 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Youngstown	$10,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Youngstown	$5,000	A tree was downed on a vehicle and a home in Youngstown.
June 2008	Hail	Youngstown	$5,000	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Youngstown	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Niagara County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1950 USGS Ft Niagara quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Ft Niagara quadrangle1:24000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1980 USGS Ft Niagara quadrangle1:25000
1986 USGS Niagara Falls 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
John Carter Farmstead	0.8 miles	2007
Fort Niagara Light	0.8 miles	1984
South Redoubt	0.9 miles	1966
Casemates	0.9 miles	1966
North Redoubt	0.9 miles	1966
French Castle	1.0 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000687 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Niagara County	All 99 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.