Methodist Episcopal Church of East DeKalb

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 696 E. DeKalb Rd., DeKalb, 13630
When was it listed? December 1998
Category. building
Town. De Kalb town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 98001550 - 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.

Then and now

1915 to 1948

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Methodist Episcopal Church of East DeKalb, surveyed 1948

Topographic sheet covering Methodist Episcopal Church of East DeKalb, surveyed 1915

Fires near this property

82 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church of East DeKalb between 2003 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	64
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church of East DeKalb: 8 past producers, 4 occurrences, 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Feldspar. 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
De Kalb Deposit	Feldspar, Quartz	Past Producer	1907, 1908, 1938
Stella Mines	Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig Iron	Past Producer	1883, 1921
De Kalb Junction Mine	Feldspar	Past Producer
Farr Prospect	Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig Iron	Occurrence	1904
Mitchell Prospect	Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig Iron	Occurrence	1904
Lowden Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Ore Bed Deposit No. 1	Sulfur-Pyrite	Prospect
Ore Bed Deposit No.2	Iron, Sulfur	Past Producer
Ore Bed School Mine	Sulfur, Iron	Past Producer
Ore Bed School Prospect	Sulfur-Pyrite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence 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.

1915 USGS Gouverneur quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1937 USGS Gouverneur quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Bigelow quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gouverneur quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Congregational Church	7.6 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001550 in Record Group 79.
St. Lawrence County	All 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.
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.