Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“Phelps Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at Phelps in Ontario County, New York, USA. The church was constructed in 1845 and is an example of Greek Revival style, cobblestone ecclesiastical architecture.”
Wikipedia article First Baptist Church of Phelps, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 78 National Register listings published here for Ontario County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
Also known as. Cobblestone Architecture of New York State MPS
Town. Phelps town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number.92000554- 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
120 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 120 fires within 5 miles of First Baptist Church of Phelps
between 2003 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 35 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
61
Arson/incendiarism
35
Debris and open burning
12
Natural
6
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Smoking
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
24 workings within 5 miles of First Baptist Church of Phelps: 15 past producers, 9 producers.
9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Phelps, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 26 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 lightning.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
The National Weather Service surveyed damage in the Town of |Phelps in Ontario County from July 7 today. Damage began west of|Melvin Hill Road with a few broken hardwood branches but quickly|intensified to the east-southeast as multiple softwood trees|were snapped and uprooted around two homes and a barn. While|none of those structures received notable damage, multiple trees |nearby saw their trunks snapped. Damage continued east-southeast|to the north of County Road 23 with dozens of hardwood trees |snapped on the north side of a large farm area. As the damage|continued to the east-southeast, three residences received damage|around the roundabout at the intersection of County Road 23 and|Fort Hill Road. The worse damage was located just northwest of|the roundabout, where an entire roof and portions of the wall of|a home were destroyed. Nearby, another roof was fully destroyed,|as well. A barn just south of the roundabout was shifted off its|foundation, and a silo saw its roof about half removed. ||From the damage surveyed today, as well as multiple pictures, |videos, and drone footage shared from multiple sources, the|National Weather Service storm survey team determined the|damage to be consistent with a tornado rated an EF-2 on the|Enhanced Fujita Scale. Maximum winds were estimated at 115 mph.
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.
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.
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.
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