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Photograph of Grace Episcopal Church
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Grace Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Grace Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Whitney Point in Broome County, New York. It is a small wood-framed church constructed in 1871 in the High Victorian Gothic style.”

Wikipedia article Grace Episcopal Church (Whitney Point, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 66 National Register listings published here for Broome 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2624 Main St., Whitney Point, 13862
  • When was it listed? August 1998
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Historic Churches of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York MPS
  • Town. Triangle town
  • National Register reference number. 98001113 - 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Grace Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 180 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning31
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2

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
12 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 August 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
2 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
20 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 July 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Broome County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grace Episcopal Church: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
Harry Pease No.1 WellSaltProspect

Every working recorded in Broome County

Storms near this property

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitney Point, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 5 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWhitney Point$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWhitney Point$5,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWhitney Point$1,000no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindWhitney Point$500no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWhitney Point$500no account filed

Every storm recorded in Broome 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

1 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
Cyrus Gates Farmstead6.7 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001113 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Broome CountyAll 66 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.