Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
From the record
“Trinity Episcopal Church - Fairfield is a historic Episcopal church located on NY 29 in the hamlet of Fairfield, Herkimer County, New York. It was built in 1808, and is a three bay by four bay, wood-frame church with a gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Trinity Episcopal Church-Fairfield, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.93000499- 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
55 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Trinity Episcopal Church-Fairfield
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 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
28
Arson/incendiarism
10
Natural
7
Smoking
3
Debris and open burning
3
Other causes
3
Equipment and vehicle use
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Trinity Episcopal Church-Fairfield: 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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
Fairfield, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning.
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.
Road washouts were reported in the Town of Fairfield on Sandy Lane Road, Comstock Road and Myers Road from culverts backing up and overflowing the roadways. Also, Kelly Road was closed because part of a field of corn slid down the hillside and covered the roadway about 0.3 miles west of Route 169.
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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