Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Chapel and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Chapel and Cemetery is a historic church located northwest of Golden, Adams County, Illinois. The church was built in 1858-59 for the local Methodist Episcopal congregation.”
Wikipedia article Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Chapel and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 1984 · 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. NW of Golden, Golden, 62339
When was it listed? June 1984
Category. building
Township. Houston township
National Register reference number. 84000921 - 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Chapel and Cemetery in 2014, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	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
24 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	2014018

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Golden, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Golden	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines in Golden.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Golden	-	Storm spotters reported power lines down in Golden.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Golden	-	The County Sheriff reported trees and power lines down in Golden.
May 2019	Hail	Golden	-	no account filed
December 2015	Hail	Golden	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Golden	-	no account filed
September 2003	Hail	Golden	-	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Golden	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Exchange Bank	5.8 miles	1987
	F. D. Thomas House	8.0 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000921 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Adams County	All 26 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.