Ladentown United Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“Ladentown United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church on Ladentown Road in the Village of Pomona, Rockland County, New York. It was built about 1865 and is a rectangular one story, traditional timber-frame structure above a raised basement.”
Wikipedia article Ladentown United Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 2005 · 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. Ladentown Rd., Village of Pomona, 10970
When was it listed? September 2005
Category. building
Town. Ramapo town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 05000990 - 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

1,079 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,079 fires within 5 miles of Ladentown United Methodist Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,336 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 120 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	645
Arson/incendiarism	120
Smoking	110
Recreation and ceremony	58
Natural	45
Misuse of fire by a minor	33
Debris and open burning	29
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Power generation/transmission/distribution	13

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 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Rockland 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 Ladentown United Methodist Church: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Zirconium. 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
Ladentown Copper Deposit	Copper, Zirconium	Occurrence
Mount Ivy Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mount Ivy Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1891 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1910 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1931 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1931 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:48000
1938 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Thiells quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Middletown 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
Seaman-Knapp House	0.5 miles	2012
Camp Hill School	0.7 miles	2019
Pig Knoll School	1.0 miles	2019
Richard Pousette-Dart House and Studio	2.0 miles	2019
Gurnee-Sherwood House	2.4 miles	2011
Contempora House	2.6 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000990 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rockland County	All 93 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.