West Fulton Methodist Church

Built in 1906 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“West Fulton Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located in Fulton, Schoharie County, New York. It was built in 1906, and is a two-story, rectangular, Late Victorian style frame church.”
Wikipedia article West Fulton Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie County · listed in 2013 · category: Building · built in 1906, Victorian architecture.

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. 849 West Fulton Rd., West Fulton
When was it listed? February 2013
Category. building
Town. Fulton town
When was it built? 1906
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 12001261 - 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of West Fulton Methodist Church between 1992 and 2019, burning about 85 acres in total. 2 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	22
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SUMMIT HAY BALES
7 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 June 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
7 June 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
25 June 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Fulton Methodist Church: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Spring Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Schoharie 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.

1898 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1943 USGS Breakabeen quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1946 USGS Breakabeen quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam 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
Breakabeen Historic District	4.8 miles	1974
Old Blenheim Bridge	6.5 miles	1966
North Blenheim Historic District	6.6 miles	1974
St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church	6.8 miles	2006
US Post Office-Middleburgh	6.9 miles	1989
Dr. Christopher S. Best House and Office	6.9 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001261 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schoharie County	All 52 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.