Lodi Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Lodi Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located at Lodi in Seneca County, New York. It was constructed in 1880 and it consists of a main block with four steeply pitched gables, a corner bell tower, and a large single story rear wing.”
Wikipedia article Lodi Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Seneca County · listed in 1982 · 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. S. Main and Grove Sts., Lodi, 14860
When was it listed? May 1982
Category. building
Town. Lodi town
Architect. Warren H. Hayes
National Register reference number. 82003405 - 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

69 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Lodi Methodist Church between 1998 and 2019, burning about 45 acres in total. 6 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	29
Arson/incendiarism	13
Debris and open burning	11
Natural	6
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
21 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2018	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Seneca 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 Lodi Methodist Church: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	Carrie Chapman No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Seneca County

Storms near this property

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lodi, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	$20,000	A barn was damaged in Lodi on Keady Road. A 40 x 200 foot tin roof was blown off the barn and landed in the road. A house was damaged due to numerous trees that fell on it.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Lodi	$10,000	Swift water rescues were in progress for people trapped in houses near Lodi.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	$2,500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down wires on Maple Street in Lodi from the second severe storm that passed through.
August 2014	Hail	Lodi	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Lodi	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Seneca County

Maps showing this location

8 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 Ovid quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1942 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 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
Aaron Wilson House	2.4 miles	2001
Jones, Hannah and George W. House	4.2 miles	2020
Seneca County Courthouse Complex at Ovid	4.4 miles	1976
Edith B. Ford Memorial Library	4.5 miles	2018
First Baptist Church of Interlaken	4.9 miles	2002
Queen's Castle	5.2 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003405 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.
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.