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St. Paul's Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Paul's Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Brownville in Jefferson County, New York. It was built in about 1820 and is a two-story, timber-framed church built of native limestone coated in stucco and exhibiting characteristics of Federal-style church architecture.”

Wikipedia article St. Paul's Church (Brownville, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson 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. 210 Washington St., Brownville, 13615
  • When was it listed? August 1996
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Historic Churches of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York MPS
  • Town. Brownville town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 96000960 - 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

363 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 363 fires within 5 miles of St. Paul's Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 224 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 84 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/undetermined186
Arson/incendiarism84
Debris and open burning34
Smoking20
Natural20
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of St. Paul's Church: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
La Fargville Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Limerick QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBrownville$15,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
August 2012Flash FloodBrownville$15,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBrownville$10,000A trained spotter reported trees down by thunderstorm winds.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBrownville$2,000Trees and wires downed in the Town of Brownville.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBrownville-Trees and wires downed in The Town of Brownville.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Gen. Jacob Brown Mansionunder 500 feet1980
Arthur Walrath House0.1 miles1980
William Archer House0.1 miles1980
Brownville Hotel0.2 miles1980
Vogt House0.2 miles1980
Conklin Farm1.5 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000960 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 144 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.