St. James' Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“James' Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Cleveland in Oswego County, New York. It is a frame Gothic Revival style structure built in 1867.”
Wikipedia article St. James' Church (Cleveland, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Oswego County · listed in 1996 · 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. North St., jct. with Bridge St., Cleveland, 13042
When was it listed? August 1996
Category. building
Also known as. Historic Churches of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York MPS
Town. Constantia town
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 96000958 - 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

74 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of St. James' Church between 2001 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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	44
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. James' Church: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this property

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleveland, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 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
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$15,000	no account filed
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$15,000	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Cleveland	$10,000	no account filed
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$8,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$5,000	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$2,000	Trees and powerlines downed.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$2,000	Trees and wires downed in the Town of Cleveland.
March 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$1,000	Trees and wires were reported down on Reservoir Road.

Every storm recorded in Oswego County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1895 USGS Chittenango quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Chittenango quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Chittenango quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1941 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1944 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1951 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:25000
1957 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1985 USGS Utica quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Trinity Church	6.4 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000958 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oswego County	All 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.