Logan Methodist Church

Built in 1833. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Logan Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located at Logan in Schuyler County, New York. It was built in 1833 and remodeled in 1878 and is a large Federal era frame building with a veneer of Victorian era embellishment.”
Wikipedia article Logan Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Schuyler County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1833.

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. Jct. of Cty. Rts. 4 and 2, Logan, 14818
When was it listed? January 2001
Category. building
Town. Hector town
When was it built? 1833
National Register reference number. 00001690 - 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

1898 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Logan Methodist Church, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet covering Logan Methodist Church, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

100 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Logan Methodist Church between 1995 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 4 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	52
Debris and open burning	23
Natural	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2

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 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Green Mountain National Forest	not named
3 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Schuyler County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Logan Methodist Church: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Arcangeli Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Camden Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Camden Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Haring Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Searsburg Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Schuyler County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1898 USGS Watkins Glen quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Watkins quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1905 USGS Watkins Glen quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1950 USGS Burdett quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000

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
First Presbyterian Church of Hector	2.4 miles	2001
Watkins Glen Commercial Historic District	7.6 miles	2012
St. James Episcopal Church	7.6 miles	2012
First Baptist Church of Watkins Glen	7.7 miles	2001
A. F. Chapman House	7.7 miles	1997
First Presbyterian Church of Watkins Glen	7.7 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001690 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schuyler County	All 20 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.