Richmondville United Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Richmondville United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church at 266 Main Street in Richmondville, Schoharie County, New York. It is a nearly square building with an engaged entrance / bell tower built about 1900.”
Wikipedia article Richmondville United Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 266 Main St., Richmondville, 12149
When was it listed? July 2006
Category. building
Town. Richmondville town
National Register reference number. 06000575 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Richmondville United Methodist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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	44
Debris and open burning	17
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
4 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
27 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SUMMIT HAY BALES
28 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this property

25 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richmondville, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 17 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	$20,000	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	$17,000	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Richmondville	$9,000	no account filed
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	Several reports of trees downed in the town of Richmondville.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	Trees and wires were downed with one tree on fire.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	Large limbs were downed.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	Half of a large willow tree was downed, along with several smaller branches.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Richmondville	-	Water was reported in the basement of residences in Richmondville.
August 2017	Hail	Richmondville	-	One inch hail was reported.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	A tree was downed on Mudlake Road.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	Multiple trees was reported down.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	A tree was down on State Route 7 blocking the road.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	Multiple trees and wires were downed.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	A house caught fire due to downed power lines.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	A tree was downed near Richmondville due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	Numerous trees and wires were reported down in Richmondville due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	Two trees were reported down due to thunderstorms winds on Summit St and Brooker Hollow Road in Richmondville.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Richmondville	-	Multiple roads were reportedly closed in Richmondville due to flash flooding. A landslide was reported near State Route 10 due to the flooding as well.
July 2012	Hail	Richmondville	-	Quarter sized hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Richmondville.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	Trees were reported down on wires due to thunderstorm winds in Richmondville.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	Two trees were reported down in Richmondville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2006	Flood	Richmondville	-	A trained spotter reported that a mud slide occurred in Richmondville.
November 2005	Hail	Richmondville	-	A trained spotter reported that three quarter inch hail occurred at Richmondville.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmondville	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Richmondville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schoharie 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 Richmondville quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1944 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1945 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam 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
Bunn-Tillapaugh Feed Mill	0.1 miles	2006
Terpenning-Johnson House and Cemetery	2.2 miles	2013
House at 461 Spruce Lake Road	3.7 miles	2015
Cobleskill Historic District	5.5 miles	1978
Bute-Warner-Truax Farm	6.4 miles	1985
West Fulton Methodist Church	7.1 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000575 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schoharie County	All 52 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.