St. Thomas' Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Thomas Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church building located at 2720 Slaterville Road, east of the post office in Slaterville Springs in the town of Caroline, Tompkins County, New York. It was built in 1893 and is an example of the Carpenter Gothic style of architecture, sometimes called the High Victorian Gothic.”
Wikipedia article St. Thomas Episcopal Church (Slaterville Springs, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Tompkins County · listed in 1995 · 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. 2740 Slaterville Rd. (NY 79), Slaterville Springs, 14881
When was it listed? April 1995
Category. building
Town. Caroline town
Architectural style. Carpenter Gothic
National Register reference number. 95000458 - 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.

Then and now

1900 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet covering St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, surveyed 1900

Fires near this property

72 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church between 1993 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 3 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	37
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
27 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 July 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 June 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Tompkins 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. Thomas' Episcopal Church: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Knights Settlement Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Knights Settlement Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Perkins Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tompkins County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slaterville Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Slaterville Springs	$15,000	A fast moving line of severe thunderstorms crossed the region causing widespread damage. There were countless reports of downed trees and power lines, many onto cars and houses. Several SKYWARN observers recorded wind gusts of 60-70 mph as the storms moved through. In Niagara County, lightning struck two Lockport residents as well as three construction workers working in Lockport. All five suffered only minor injuries and were treated and released from area hospitals. In Oswego County, a weak tornado touched down in Parish severely damaging a mobile home, blowing a cap off a truck, damaging fencing and downing numerous trees. One person sustained slight injuries when she was knocked down during the storm.

Every storm recorded in Tompkins County

Maps showing this location

11 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 Dryden quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1906 USGS Catatonk quadrangle1:125000
1949 USGS Dryden quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Dryden quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Dryden quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000

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
District No. 2 School, Caroline and Dryden	0.2 miles	2005
Ellis Methodist Episcopal Church	2.5 miles	1993
Boardman House	6.0 miles	1971
Lacy-Van Vleet House	7.0 miles	1984
Dryden Historic District	7.0 miles	1984
Rockwell House	7.0 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000458 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tompkins County	All 64 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.