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Photograph of Methodist Episcopal Church
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Methodist Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Stony Creek, Warren County, New York. It was built in 1858-59 and is a vernacular Greek Revival style frame church with a gable roof.”

Wikipedia article Methodist Episcopal Church (Stony Creek, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Warren County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 33 Harrisburg Rd., Stony Creek, 12878
  • When was it listed? February 2010
  • Category. building
  • Town. Stony Creek town
  • National Register reference number. 10000031 - 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

1903 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Methodist Episcopal Church, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet covering Methodist Episcopal Church, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

52 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 193 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined24
Natural8
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
27 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHIGH STREET FIRE
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNew York Forest RangersSTONY CREEK RD
11 September 2010Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 August 2019Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersTHOMPSON MT
4 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church: 3 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Asbestos, Iron, 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
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed OccurrenceAsbestosPast Producer1875, 1911
Unnamed OccurrenceIronOccurrence1922
Unnamed OccurrenceGraniteOccurrence1915, 1922
Unnamed QuarryGraniteOccurrence1925

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this property

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stony Creek, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
October 2019Flash FloodStony Creek$200,000Stony Creek Road was washed out. There was also damage to a retaining wall.
December 2023FloodStony Creek$50,000Harrisburg Road (Route 22) in Stony Creek was limited to one lane in places due to damage from flooding.
December 2023FloodStony Creek$25,000Warrensburg Road (Route 3) near Thurman was impacted by flooding.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindStony Creek-A tree was reported down in Stony Creek due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Warren County

Maps showing this location

9 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

1 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
Woodward Hall8.0 miles2014

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000031 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Warren CountyAll 76 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.