Harpursville United Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Harpursville United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church located at Harpursville in Broome County, New York. It is a small, T-shaped one-story building built in 1920.”
Wikipedia article Harpursville United Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 66 National Register listings published here for Broome County · listed in 2006 · 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. NY 79, Harpursville, 13787
When was it listed? January 2006
Category. building
Town. Colesville town
National Register reference number. 05001532 - 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

89 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Harpursville United Methodist Church between 1999 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 17 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	29
Debris and open burning	18
Arson/incendiarism	17
Natural	8
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
25 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 August 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 July 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 July 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Broome 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 Harpursville United Methodist Church: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Windsor Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Broome County

Storms near this property

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harpursville, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 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
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Harpursville	$15,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees. Some fell on homes.
August 2020	Flash Flood	Harpursville	$10,000	Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding of Belden Brook over Route 79.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Harpursville	$10,000	Around 100 trees were blown down. Power poles were also knocked down on several different roads.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Harpursville	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down multiple trees.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Harpursville	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree near 199 Centerville Loop Road.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Harpursville	$5,000	Winds damaged some structures.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Harpursville	$2,000	Water was flooding Route 7 by Dives Crossing.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Harpursville	$1,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees which blocked a roadway.
September 2013	Hail	Harpursville	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Harpursville	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Harpursville	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Harpursville	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Harpursville	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Harpursville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Broome County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1905 USGS Nineveh quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Afton quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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
Ouaquaga Lenticular Truss Bridge	4.0 miles	2003
Windsor Village Historic District	7.0 miles	1980
Jedediah Hotchkiss House	7.4 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001532 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Broome County	All 66 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.