First Presbyterian Church of Ontario Center

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“First Presbyterian Church of Ontario Center is a historic Presbyterian church located at Ontario Center in Wayne County, New York. It was built in 1914 and is a Tudor Revival style concrete block church cast to resemble rusticated masonry.”
Wikipedia article First Presbyterian Church of Ontario Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Wayne 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. 1638 Ridge Rd., Ontario Center, 14519
When was it listed? June 1998
Category. building
Town. Ontario town
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 98000665 - 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

147 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Ontario Center between 2000 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 19 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	81
Arson/incendiarism	19
Debris and open burning	17
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Ontario Center: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Walworth Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Walworth Quarry and Plant	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Ontario Iron Ore Co. Workings	Iron	Past Producer
Ontario Openings	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1900 USGS Macedon quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1942 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:31680
1952 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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
Brick Church Corners	2.2 miles	1974
Isaac Shipley House	6.6 miles	2022
Gates Hall and Pultneyville Public Square	6.9 miles	2000
Pultneyville Historic District	7.1 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000665 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 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.