First Old School Baptist Church of Roxbury and Vega Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“First Old School Baptist Church of Roxbury and Vega Cemetery is a historic Baptist church and cemetery located at Roxbury in Delaware County, New York. The church was built in 1856 in a Greek Revival style and is a rectangular, front gabled frame building in the meeting house form.”
Wikipedia article First Old School Baptist Church of Roxbury and Vega Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Near Jct. of Co. Rt. 36 and Cartwright Rd., Roxbury, 12421
When was it listed? April 1996
Category. district
Town. Roxbury town
National Register reference number. 96000371 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of First Old School Baptist Church of Roxbury and Vega Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 was 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	22
Debris and open burning	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
20 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 June 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 June 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roxbury, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 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
June 2021	Flash Flood	Roxbury	$30,000	Town officials reported severe washouts at Teichmann Road and South Mongomery Hollow Road in the Town of Roxbury.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Roxbury	$2,000	The road was closed along Route 30 near Hubbell Corners Road due to flooding.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Roxbury	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked wires down.
July 2010	Hail	Roxbury	-	Dime to penny size hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1901 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1945 USGS Fleischmanns quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1946 USGS Fleischmanns quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
Ulster and Delaware Railroad Depot and Mill Complex	3.0 miles	2003
Roxbury Historic District	3.0 miles	2003
Main Street Historic District	3.1 miles	1988
Second Old School Baptist Church of Roxbury	3.2 miles	1999
Woodchuck Lodge (Burroughs, John, Home)	4.1 miles	1966
Walter Stratton House	4.1 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000371 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware County	All 78 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.