Wesleyan Methodist Church

Built in 1843. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Wesleyan Methodist Church is a historic Wesleyan church located at Seneca Falls in Seneca County, New York. All interior features have been removed and three original walls stand.”
Wikipedia article Wesleyan Methodist Church (Seneca Falls, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Seneca County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1843.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 126 Fall St., Seneca Falls, 13165
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Women's Rights Historic Sites TR
Town. Tyre town
When was it built? 1843
National Register reference number. 80000361 - 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

104 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Wesleyan Methodist Church between 1997 and 2020, burning about 810 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 18 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	53
Arson/incendiarism	18
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	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
8 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Seneca County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wesleyan Methodist Church: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
	Devils Gulch Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Seneca Falls Well No.12	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Seneca 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.

1902 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1943 USGS Seneca Falls quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Seneca Falls quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Seneca Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Auburn 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
Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road	1.0 miles	2008
John Graves Cobblestone Farmhouse	1.5 miles	2008
Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1111 Stone Church Roach	2.0 miles	2007
Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1027 Stone Church Rd.	2.2 miles	2007
Hiram Lay Cobblestone Farmhouse	3.7 miles	2009
United Methodist Church	3.9 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80000361 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Seneca County	All 40 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.