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Photograph of West Charlton United Presbyterian Church
Photograph by Peter Flass, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

West Charlton United Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“West Charlton United Presbyterian Church, also known as "Scotch Church," is a historic Presbyterian church at 1331 Sacandaga Road in West Charlton, Saratoga County, New York. It was built about 1880 and is a rectangular, wood-frame building in the Late Victorian style.”

Wikipedia article West Charlton United Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 1998 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1331 Sacandaga Rd., West Charlton, 12010
  • When was it listed? February 1998
  • Category. building
  • Town. Charlton town
  • National Register reference number. 98000127 - 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

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of West Charlton United Presbyterian Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined94
Arson/incendiarism27
Natural13
Debris and open burning11
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3

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
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
13 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this property

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Charlton, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 3 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWest Charlton-Trees and wires were downed near Charlton Road in the Town of Charlton.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Charlton-Multiple trees were downed on Route 147 between Galway and Glenville.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindWest Charlton-Multiple large branches and limbs were downed at the intersection of Routes 67 and 147 in West Charlton due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Saratoga County

Maps showing this location

10 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

2 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
Mead House3.0 miles2004
Charlton Historic District4.2 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000127 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saratoga CountyAll 83 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.