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Mount Saviour Monastery

Built in 1950. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Mount Saviour Monastery is a historic farm and monastery campus within a national historic district located near Pine City, Chemung County, New York.”

Wikipedia article Mount Saviour Monastery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chemung County · listed in 2015 · category: District · built in 1950.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Then and now

1895 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Mount Saviour Monastery, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet covering Mount Saviour Monastery, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

158 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Mount Saviour Monastery between 1994 and 2020, burning about 180 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined62
Debris and open burning35
Arson/incendiarism20
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
9 August 2000Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Chemung County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Mount Saviour Monastery: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
E.R. Wolcott Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East Corning PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
East Corning PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
East Corning PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Janoski's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rhinehart Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Rhinehart Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chemung County

Storms near this property

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine City, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindPine City$50,000Trees were blown down and homes were damaged. Twenty-five homes suffered minor damage, and one house had substantial damage.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPine City$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on Dry Run Road.
May 2011HailPine City-no account filed
May 2011HailPine City-no account filed
July 2008HailPine City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chemung County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14001213 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chemung CountyAll 47 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.