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Hawleyton Methodist Episcopal Church, Old

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Old Hawleyton Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Hawleyton in Broome County, New York. It was constructed in 1856-1857 and altered in 1877 and 1942; the attached Fellowship Hall was constructed in two stages between 1950 and 1954.”
Wikipedia article Old Hawleyton Methodist Episcopal 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. 923 Hawleyton Rd., Hawleyton, 13903
When was it listed? September 2006
Category. building
Town. Binghamton town
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 06000893 - 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

82 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Hawleyton Methodist Episcopal Church, Old between 2001 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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	42
Debris and open burning	10
Smoking	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Broome County

Storms near this property

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hawleyton, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hawleyton	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hawleyton	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a telephone pole on a road.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hawleyton	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree with its trunk snapped in half. Several large branches were knocked down as well.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hawleyton	$1,000	Trees and wires were blown down on Quaker Lake Road, just north of the Pennsylvania state line.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hawleyton	-	A few trees were blown down in the town of Binghamton.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hawleyton	-	Trees and wires were blown down.
June 2022	Hail	Hawleyton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Broome County

Maps showing this location

10 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 Binghamton quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1935 USGS Binghamton West quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Binghamton West quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Binghamton West quadrangle1:24000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Binghamton West quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1985 USGS Binghamton 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
Ross Park Carousel	3.9 miles	1992
Ansco Company Charles Street Factory Buildings	5.0 miles	2012
Jonas M. Kilmer House	5.1 miles	2006
Robert H. Rose House	5.1 miles	1980
South Washington Street Parabolic Bridge	5.1 miles	1978
Roberson Mansion	5.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000893 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.
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.