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Hebron Valley Grange No. 1103

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Hebron Valley Grange No. 1103, also known as West Hebron Methodist Church, is a historic grange building located in the hamlet of West Hebron, in the town of Hebron in Washington County, New York. It was originally built about 1839 as a Methodist meeting house on a site located 20 miles from its current location.”

Wikipedia article Hebron Valley Grange No. 1103, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Washington 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. 3185 Cty Rte 30, West Hebron, 12865
  • When was it listed? July 2006
  • Category. building
  • Town. Hebron town
  • National Register reference number. 06000649 - 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.

Then and now

1895 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Hebron Valley Grange No. 1103, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet covering Hebron Valley Grange No. 1103, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Hebron Valley Grange No. 1103 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 385 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 19 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
Debris and open burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Hebron Valley Grange No. 1103: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Al Jean PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Hebron, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1999Thunderstorm WindWest Hebron$6,000no account filed
December 2023FloodWest Hebron$5,000Cross Road in Hebron was closed due to flooding.
December 2023FloodWest Hebron$5,000Cross Road in Hebron was closed due to flooding.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWest Hebron$5,000no account filed
September 2022Flash FloodWest Hebron-A basement wall collapsed due to flooding on Hemslock Lane.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWest Hebron-Multiple trees and powerlines were downed.
January 2019FloodWest Hebron-Cross Road was closed between Routes 30 and 31 due to flooding.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWest Hebron-A tree was downed onto a residence on Patterson Hill Road.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWest Hebron-Dozens of large trees were downed near the intersection of County Routes 30 and 31 resulting in a road closure. Some trees fell onto barns, houses, and cars.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWest Hebron-Numerous trees and limbs were reported down around the north side of Cossayuna Lake.
January 2010Flash FloodWest Hebron-Cross Road in Salem was reported closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Alexander McNish House4.6 miles2010
Salem Historic District4.7 miles1975
Revolutionary War Cemetery5.0 miles2004
Hebron District School No. 165.1 miles2012
Martin-Fitch House & Asa Fitch, Jr. Laboratory5.5 miles2014
Rexleigh Covered Bridge6.6 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000649 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 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.
  • 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.