Webster Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Webster Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at Webster in Monroe County, New York. It is a large Greek Revival style cobblestone church building built in 1856.”
Wikipedia article Webster Baptist Church (Webster, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1991 · 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. 59 South Ave., Webster, 14580
When was it listed? November 1991
Category. building
Town. Webster town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 91001672 - 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

375 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 375 fires within 5 miles of Webster Baptist Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 307 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 45 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	200
Smoking	49
Arson/incendiarism	45
Natural	39
Debris and open burning	20
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	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 2020	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Smoking	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2016	Natural	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Webster Baptist Church: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dewitt Brothers Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Webster, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2005	Lightning	Webster	1 hurt	no account filed
May 2000	Flash Flood	Webster	$135,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Webster	$100,000	no account filed
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$50,000	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$50,000	no account filed
October 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$35,000	no account filed
August 2011	Flash Flood	Webster	$25,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$25,000	no account filed
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	West Webster	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree which fell on a house.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$20,000	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$15,000	no account filed
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Meadow Drive.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$10,000	The media relayed reports of trees and wires down.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$10,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$10,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$7,000	no account filed
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$5,000	Broadcast media showed a large tree downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$2,000	Multiple reports of wires downed.
October 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$2,000	Trees and wires downed.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$2,000	Trees and wires down in Webster.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$1,000	Trees downed in the Town of Webster.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$1,000	Trees downed in Webster.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	$1,000	Powerlines downed.
January 1998	Flash Flood	Webster	$1,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Webster	$1,000	no account filed
September 2024	Flash Flood	Webster	-	A car was stuck in water on Route 104 and North Ave.
September 2024	Flash Flood	Webster	-	Several feet of water was on Park Road.
July 2020	Flash Flood	West Webster	-	Five Mile Lane Road was flooded.
May 2019	Hail	Webster	-	Pea to dime sized hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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.

1900 USGS Macedon quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1932 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000
1934 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1952 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1984 USGS Rochester 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
Webster Grange No. 436	0.2 miles	2016
Jayne and Mason Bank Building	0.2 miles	2006
George G. Mason House	0.3 miles	2004
William C. Jayne House	0.5 miles	2006
Dayton's Corners School	4.1 miles	2001
Harvey Whalen House	4.8 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001672 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 233 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.