Union Valley Congregational Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Union Valley Congregational Church, also known as Union Valley Community House, is a historic Congregational church located at Taylor in Cortland County, New York. It was built about 1849 and is a modestly scaled, one story meetinghouse building with a mortise and tenon timber frame built on an above grade rubble stone foundation.”
Wikipedia article Union Valley Congregational Church, 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Union Valley Cross Rd., Taylor, 13052
When was it listed? December 2002
Category. building
Town. Taylor town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 02001639 - 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

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Union Valley Congregational Church between 1995 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

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
14 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
27 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
22 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
9 July 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 May 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Cortland County

Storms near this property

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylor, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2015	Flash Flood	Taylor	$75,000	Flooding covered several roads in the area, including the villages of East Freetown, Taylor and Cincinnatus.
June 1998	Hail	Taylor	$15,000	A thunderstorm that produced wind damage and large hail across western sections of the county earlier in the evening reintensified to severe limits once again further east. Trees and power lines were downed in the town of Taylor and dime sized hail was reported as well.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylor	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees near Union Valley Road.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylor	$8,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylor	$5,000	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylor	$1,000	Trees down

Every storm recorded in Cortland County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1904 USGS Pitcher quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Cuyler quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1944 USGS Cuyler quadrangle1:31680
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

4 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
Taylor Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Taylor District #3 School	2.5 miles	2010
Town Line Bridge	4.5 miles	2008
Cincinnatus Historic District	6.4 miles	1984
Hatheway Homestead	7.0 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001639 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.
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.