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Photograph of St. John's Episcopal Church
Photograph by Jpeelman, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. John's Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“John's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Phoenix in Oswego County, New York. It is a small frame Gothic Revival style structure built in 1911.”

Wikipedia article St. John's Episcopal Church (Phoenix, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Oswego County · listed in 1993 · 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. 670 Main St., Phoenix, 13135
  • When was it listed? May 1993
  • Category. building
  • Town. Schroeppel town
  • National Register reference number. 93000442 - 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

175 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of St. John's Episcopal Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined89
Arson/incendiarism22
Natural18
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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 St. John's Episcopal Church: 3 producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Capria PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Phoenix Gravel BedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phoenix, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1998Thunderstorm WindPhoenix$500,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPhoenix$20,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPhoenix$20,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPhoenix$15,000Widespread damage was reported with numerous trees and wires down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPhoenix$10,000Photos of downed trees were posted on Social Media.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPhoenix$10,000An isolated thunderstorm over Oswego county downed trees and power lines in Phoenix during the late morning hours.
July 2006HailPhoenix$8,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindPhoenix$5,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPhoenix$2,000Pole and wires downed.
May 2017HailPhoenix-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oswego County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

Listed places nearby

4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Sweet Memorial Building0.2 miles1990
Northrup-Gilbert House0.3 miles2000
Schroeppel House4.5 miles1982
First Congregational Church and Society of Volney7.6 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000442 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oswego CountyAll 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.