North Hillsdale Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“North Hillsdale Methodist Church, also known as North Hillsdale United Methodist Church and Wesleyan Chapel of North Hillsdale, is a historic Methodist church located at North Hillsdale in Columbia County, New York. It was built between 1837 and 1838, and is a one-story, timber-frame building in the Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article North Hillsdale Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia 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. 1012 County Rte 2, North Hillsdale, 12529
When was it listed? October 2010
Category. building
Town. Hillsdale town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 10000811 - 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

95 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of North Hillsdale Methodist Church between 1995 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 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	48
Arson/incendiarism	13
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	8
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
23 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
28 July 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of North Hillsdale Methodist Church: 13 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Goodsell Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Producer
Goodsell Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Past Producer
Haight Mine/Goodsell Bog Mn Occurrence	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	Residual
Palmer Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Occurrence
Palmer Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Past Producer
Haight Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Haight Limonte Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Limonite
Hillsdale Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Limonite
Hillsdale Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Hillsdale Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Hillsdale, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 5 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
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	North Hillsdale	-	A tree was reported down on Mitchell Street in Hillsdale. Damage was due to strong winds from an outflow boundary.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	North Hillsdale	-	Tree was downed on Hunt Road near County Route 21.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	North Hillsdale	-	A tree was reported down.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	North Hillsdale	-	A National Weather Service storm survey examined thunderstorm wind damage in the town of Hillsdale. Trees were downed on Hunt Road near Orchard Road. In addition, numerous other trees were downed in a northwest to southeast arc towards the Massachusetts State Line due to a series of thunderstorm microbursts. Some of the downed trees damaged homes and power lines as well.
July 2008	Hail	North Hillsdale	-	Quarter size hail was measured by a trained storm spotter in North Hillsdale during a thunderstorm.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	North Hillsdale	-	Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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.

1902 USGS Copake quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Copake quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Hillsdale quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hillsdale quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Pittsfield 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
Pine View Farm	1.6 miles	2002
Columbia Turnpike East Tollhouse	3.9 miles	2016
Dr. Joseph P. Dorr House	3.9 miles	2007
Hillsdale Hamlet Historic District	4.0 miles	2010
Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Harlemville and Cemetery	4.3 miles	2002
Austerlitz Historic District	5.1 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000811 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia County	All 155 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.