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Photograph of East Genoa Methodist Episcopal Church
Photograph by Doncram, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

East Genoa Methodist Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“East Genoa Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Genoa in Cayuga County, New York. It is a hand hewn timber-frame structure, sheathed in pine clapboard, and built in 1849 in the Greek Revival style by Edward Palmer.”

Wikipedia article East Genoa Methodist Episcopal Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Cayuga County · listed in 2002 · 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. 558 E. Genoa Rd., Genoa, 13092
  • When was it listed? January 2002
  • Category. building
  • Town. Genoa town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 01001500 - 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

30 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of East Genoa Methodist Episcopal Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined19
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1

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 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
9 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
13 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Cayuga 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 East Genoa Methodist Episcopal Church: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Town of Genoa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Genoa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Town of Locke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Locke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this property

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Genoa, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindGenoa$10,000A thunderstorm pulsed to severe levels over extreme southern Cayuga county. A few trees and power lines were blown down in the town of Genoa before the cell weakened.
March 2026Flash FloodEast Genoa$5,000An email was received with photos showing water rushing across Locke Road near Locke, NY and impacting travel.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindGenoa$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees along State Route 90.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGenoa$5,000Trees fell on houses, and trees and wires were blown down in Genoa and Locke.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindGenoa$2,000Trees were blown down.
November 2006Thunderstorm WindGenoa$1,000Scattered trees down.

Every storm recorded in Cayuga 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.

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
Moravia Union Cemetery5.9 miles1995
Tuthill-Green House6.0 miles1995
House at 46 South Main Street6.0 miles1995
Morse Farm6.0 miles1995
House at 36 South Main Street6.0 miles1995
House at 17 Aurora Street6.1 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01001500 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cayuga CountyAll 71 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.