Upperville Meeting House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Upperville Meeting House is a historic Friends meeting house on New York State Route 80 in Upperville, Chenango County, New York. It was built in 1896 and is a one-story rectangular wood-frame building on a dressed stone foundation.”
Wikipedia article Upperville Meeting House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chenango 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 80, Upperville, 13464
When was it listed? April 2002
Category. building
Town. Smyrna town
National Register reference number. 02000307 - 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Upperville Meeting House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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	15
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2005	Natural	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
21 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
17 June 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Upperville Meeting House: 1 past producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Smyrna Town Gravel Bed	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chenango 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.

1903 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Earlville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Earlville quadrangle1:31680
1944 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich 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
Smyrna Town Hall-Opera House	2.4 miles	2008
Smyrna Elementary School	2.5 miles	1996
Hazard Jr. Willcox Farm	3.2 miles	2019
West Hill Cemetery	4.3 miles	2006
Earlville Opera House	4.5 miles	1973
Earlville Historic District	4.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000307 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chenango County	All 47 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.