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

Cochecton Center Methodist Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1922.

From the record

“Cochecton Center Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Cochecton Center Community Center, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church on Skipperene Road in Cochecton Center, Sullivan County, New York. It was built in 1892 and is a small, rectangular, wood-frame building with clapboard siding on an ashlar foundation and a steep gable roof.”

Wikipedia article Cochecton Center Methodist Episcopal Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2000 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Skipperdine Rd., Cochecton Center, 12764
  • When was it listed? April 2000
  • Category. building
  • Town. Cochecton town
  • National Register reference number. 00000343 - 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Cochecton Center Methodist Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 252 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined66
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism21
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Other causes6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2005Debris and open burning1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cochecton Center Methodist Episcopal Church: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Fosterdale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Fosterdale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

12 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Jewish Center of Lake Huntington2.0 miles2009
Page House3.8 miles1992
Kirk House5.0 miles1984
Drake-Curtis House5.0 miles1993
Old Cochecton Cemetery5.1 miles1992
Arlington Hotel5.1 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000343 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan CountyAll 79 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.