First Baptist Church of Painted Post

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1914.

From the record

“First Baptist Church of Painted Post is a historic Baptist church located at Painted Post in Steuben County, New York. The church was originally built in 1860 and expanded and remodeled in 1915 by architects Pierce & Bickford after a fire destroyed the mid-19th century building's tower and spire.”
Wikipedia article First Baptist Church of Painted Post, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Steuben County · listed in 1999 · 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. 130 W. Water St., Painted Post, 14870
When was it listed? February 1999
Category. building
Town. Erwin town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
Architect. Pierce & Bickford
National Register reference number. 99000088 - 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

257 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 257 fires within 5 miles of First Baptist Church of Painted Post between 1992 and 2020, burning about 309 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 31 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	125
Arson/incendiarism	31
Debris and open burning	27
Smoking	27
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Natural	15
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2006	Smoking	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.6 acres	New York Forest Rangers	WEST HILL FIRE
28 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
23 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
22 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
2 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Steuben 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 Baptist Church of Painted Post: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium. 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
Corning Plant	Zirconium	Unknown
Canada Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Coopers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
East Corning Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this property

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Painted Post, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Painted Post	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and wires.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Painted Post	$6,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees. Trees were also knocked over in the locations of Riverside and Hornby.
August 2025	Flash Flood	Painted Post	$5,000	Several roadways were reported to be flooded in Painted Post.
August 2025	Flash Flood	Painted Post	$5,000	Hodgmans Creek was out of its banks and flooding nearby roads.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Painted Post	$5,000	Structural damage occurred to buildings.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Painted Post	$5,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Painted Post	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires over a road.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Painted Post	$2,000	Large tree limbs were broken in the Painted Post area.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Painted Post	$1,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over a tree onto Victory Highway.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Painted Post	-	Several trees were knocked down.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Painted Post	-	Large branches were broken.
May 2007	Hail	Painted Post	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Painted Post	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Painted Post	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Painted Post	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Steuben County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1914 USGS Corning quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1944 USGS Corning quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Erwin Town Hall	under 500 feet	2022
US Post Office-Painted Post	under 500 feet	1989
St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church Complex	1.5 miles	2025
Jenning's Tavern	1.6 miles	1973
Market Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)	2.0 miles	2000
Corning Armory	2.2 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000088 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Steuben County	All 63 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.