First Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

“First Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church on Polin Road in Charleston, Montgomery County, New York. It is believed to have been built in the 1820s and remodeled during the 1860s.”
Wikipedia article First Baptist Church (Charleston, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1994 · 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, 1 site, 1 structure, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Polin Rd., Charleston, 12072
When was it listed? January 1994
Category. building
Town. Charleston town
National Register reference number. 93001546 - 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of First Baptist Church between 2001 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	33
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	6
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
16 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Charleston, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Charleston	$25,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Charleston	$6,000	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Charleston	$6,000	no account filed
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Charleston	-	Tree was downed across Burtonsville Road.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Charleston	-	A tree was downed across Route 30A, just north of Gordon Road.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Charleston	-	One tree was downed and blocking Burtonville Road due to thunderstorm winds in the town of Charleston.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Charleston	-	One tree was reported down in Charleston during a thunderstorm.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Charleston	-	A tree and power lines were reportedly down and across a road due to thunderstorm winds in Charleston.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Charleston	-	Trees and wires were reported down near Charleston.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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.

1896 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1943 USGS Esperance quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Esperance quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam 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
Smith-Voorhees-Covenhoven House	2.5 miles	2022
Glen Historic District	3.2 miles	2001
Danascara Place	6.4 miles	2019
Fultonville Historic District	6.8 miles	2019
Old Courthouse Complex	7.4 miles	1982
Amsterdam City Hall	7.5 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001546 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 62 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.