Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.
From the record
“The Grace Methodist Church Complex, also known as Mountain Community Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church complex located at Speculator, Hamilton County, New York. The church was built in 1909 and is a compact Gothic Revival style frame church.”
Wikipedia article Grace Methodist Church Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1909.
National Register reference number. 15000006 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
43 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Grace Methodist Church Complex
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
15
Recreation and ceremony
13
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Natural
5
Debris and open burning
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Speculator, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.
Severe thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines during the late afternoon of August 31st. One of the trees fell on a van causing extensive damage.
Several impassable roadways, downed trees and phone lines and power outages were reported around the Moffitt Beach State Campground in the Town of Lake Pleasant. One of the trees fell onto a camper trailer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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