First Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“First Presbyterian Church, also known as Preble Congregational Church, is a historic Presbyterian church located at Preble in Cortland County, New York. It was built in about 1831 as a conventional meetinghouse in the Federal style.”
Wikipedia article First Presbyterian Church (Preble, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Cortland 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Courtland Cty Rd. 108B, Preble, 13141
When was it listed? January 2002
Category. building
Town. Preble town
National Register reference number. 01001502 - 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

76 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 23 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	28
Arson/incendiarism	23
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
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
22 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 July 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Cortland County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Homer Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Homer Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Homer Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Cortland County

Storms near this property

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Preble, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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
August 2021	Flash Flood	Preble	$15,000	Multiple roads are flooded in Preble.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Preble	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down several trees and poles. US-11 was closed as a result.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Preble	$6,000	Water was rapidly flowing across the intersection of Preble Road and U.S. Route 11. Minor flooding was elsewhere in, and near, the Village of Preble.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Preble	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and powerlines near Otisco Valley Road and Masters Road.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Preble	$5,000	Trees and a wire were blown down.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Preble	$2,000	Tree was blown down blocking Route 11.
June 2021	Hail	Preble	-	A strong thunderstorm produced 1 inch hail.

Every storm recorded in Cortland 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.

1903 USGS Cortland quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1944 USGS Homer quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Homer quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Homer quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Auburn 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
Little York Pavilion	1.8 miles	1979
Truxton Depot	6.1 miles	2008
Glen Haven District No. 4 School and Public Library	6.4 miles	1997
US Post Office-Homer	6.4 miles	1989
Water, Wall, and Pine Streets Lenticular Truss Bridges	6.9 miles	1977
Old Homer Village Historic District	7.0 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001502 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cortland County	All 31 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.