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Photograph of Red Brick Church
Photograph by Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Red Brick Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Red Brick Church is a historic Baptist church located at Sodus Center in Wayne County, New York. The former meeting house is a two-story, gable roofed rectangular brick building resting on a slightly raised fieldstone foundation.”

Wikipedia article Red Brick Church (Sodus Center, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Wayne 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of Brick Church Rd. and S. Geneva Rd., Sodus Center, 14551
  • When was it listed? December 1997
  • Category. building
  • Town. Sodus town
  • National Register reference number. 97001527 - 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

186 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Red Brick Church between 2001 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 44 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/undetermined111
Arson/incendiarism44
Debris and open burning11
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Red Brick Church: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Salmon CreekIronPast Producer
Sodus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sodus Quarry and PlantLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Beckens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway Dept PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sodus Center, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2021: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021Thunderstorm WindSodus Center$2,000Trees and wires were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Wayne County

Maps showing this location

8 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
Walling Cobblestone Tavern1.5 miles1994
Wallington Cobblestone Schoolhouse District No. 81.6 miles1994
Alasa Farms3.3 miles2009
Third Methodist Episcopal Church of Sodus3.7 miles2024
LOTUS (schooner)4.7 miles1990
Customs House4.7 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97001527 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne CountyAll 40 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.