Photograph of Taylor Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Taylor District No. 3 School — Photograph by Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Taylor Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Taylor District #3 School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Taylor Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Taylor District No. 3 School is a historic Methodist Episcopal church and former one-room school located at Taylor Center in Cortland County, New York, United States. The church, also known as Second Methodist Episcopal Church of Taylor, the Solon Pond Church, and the Christian Community Church of Solon Pond, was constructed about 1870.”
Wikipedia article Taylor Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Taylor District No. 3 School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Cortland 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4332-4338 Cheningo-Solon Pond Rd, Taylore Center, 13040
When was it listed? July 2010
Category. building
Town. Taylor town
National Register reference number. 10000513 - 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

39 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Taylor Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Taylor District #3 School between 1995 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	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
14 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
13 September 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
22 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
9 July 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Cortland 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 Pitcher quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Cincinnatus quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1944 USGS Cincinnatus quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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
Union Valley Congregational Church	2.5 miles	2002
Town Line Bridge	4.0 miles	2008
Hatheway Homestead	4.8 miles	1978
Cincinnatus Historic District	5.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000513 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cortland County	All 31 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.