Methodist Episcopal Church of Windham Centre

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Methodist Episcopal Church of Windham Centre, also known as Windham-Hensonville United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church on New York State Route 23 in Windham, Greene County, New York. The property includes the church, parsonage, and garage.”
Wikipedia article Methodist Episcopal Church of Windham Centre, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 2009 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1843 NY 23, Windham, 12496
When was it listed? April 2009
Category. building
Town. Windham town
National Register reference number. 09000255 - 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

106 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church of Windham Centre between 1993 and 2020, burning about 231 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 7 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	39
Debris and open burning	27
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	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
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2020	Natural	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windham, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
October 1996	Flash Flood	Windham	$20,000	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Windham	$10,000	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Windham	$7,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Windham	$5,000	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Windham	-	Local law enforcement reported trees down in Windham.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Windham	-	A tree was reported down.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Windham	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Windham due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Windham	-	Trees were reported down in Windham due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Windham	-	Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Windham.
September 2012	Flash Flood	Windham	-	Several roads in Windham were reported to have been closed due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall.
August 2011	Flash Flood	Windham	-	Route 23 was reported closed due to flooding at Hickory Hill Road in Windham along the Batavia Kill.
December 2010	Flash Flood	Windham	-	County Route 12 in Windham was reported closed due to flash flooding.
September 2004	Flash Flood	Windham	-	Pond overflowed onto Route 296.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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.

1893 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1945 USGS Hensonville quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Hensonville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hensonville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
Centre Presbyterian Church	0.3 miles	1979
Trinity Episcopal Church	2.6 miles	1996
Union Chapel	3.0 miles	2001
North Settlement Methodist Church	3.0 miles	1996
Jewett Presbyterian Church Complex	3.9 miles	2001
Elijah Strong House	4.7 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000255 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 101 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.