Ten Mile River Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1920.

From the record

“Ten Mile River Baptist Church, also known as Tusten Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist church on NY 97, at the junction with Cochecton Turnpike in Tusten, Sullivan County, New York. It was built in 1856 and is a small frame meeting house with modest Greek Revival style detailing.”
Wikipedia article Ten Mile River Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 97, jct. with Cochecton Trnpk., Tusten, 12764
When was it listed? May 1997
Category. building
Town. Tusten town
National Register reference number. 97000422 - 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Ten Mile River Baptist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 167 acres in total. 5 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	31
Debris and open burning	20
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	5
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
2 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
6 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
29 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
15 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tusten, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2007: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
July 2002	Lightning	Tusten	$200,000	Lightning struck Cortese Auto Body Shop on Route 97. The lightning started an electrical fire which spread quickly to several cans of paint thinner and paint. The building was completely engulfed by the time the fire department arrived. Two people inside the building at the time of the strike got out uninjured. The shop was a total loss. A school bus, several other vehicles, tools and equipment in the shop were all destroyed.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Tusten	$2,000	Several trees and wires were blown down.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Tusten	$2,000	Power pole down.

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1920 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1923 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1968 USGS Narrowsburg quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Narrowsburg quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Narrowsburg quadrangle1:24000 - 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
Tusten Stone Arch Bridge	0.3 miles	2000
Kirk House	3.9 miles	1984
Narrowsburg Methodist Church	3.9 miles	2000
Arlington Hotel	4.1 miles	1983
Minisink Battlefield	5.5 miles	1993
Cochecton Center Methodist Episcopal Church	6.8 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000422 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan County	All 79 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.