United Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church located at Morristown in St. The church was built about 1838 and is a rectangular, frame structure with a gable roof.”
Wikipedia article United Methodist Church (Morristown, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Gouveneur St., Morristown, 13669
When was it listed? September 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Morristown Village MRA
Town. Morristown town
National Register reference number. 82004690 - 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.

Then and now

1906 to 1948

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 42 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering United Methodist Church, surveyed 1948

Topographic sheet covering United Methodist Church, surveyed 1906

Fires near this property

70 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of United Methodist Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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	31
Arson/incendiarism	22
Debris and open burning	13
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of United Methodist Church: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unnamed Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Stout Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stouts Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Stouts Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this property

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morristown, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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
July 2017	Flash Flood	Morristown	$100,000	Widespread flooding with culverts damaged, basements flooded, and roads closed across Saint Lawrence County.
June 2005	Lightning	Morristown	$50,000	no account filed
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$5,000	Several trees and power lines down in Morristown.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$5,000	A cold front moved southeast from Canada into northern New York during the late afternoon and evening hours of August 4th resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of St. Lawrence County. Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in Morristown with scattered reports of trees and powerlines down elsewhere in the county. Nickel-size hail was reported along the west shore of Tupper Lake.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$2,000	Tree, branches and utility lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$2,000	Tree down on utility lines caused by thunderstorm winds.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	-	Tree down on utility lines caused by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence 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.

1906 USGS Brier Hill quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Morristown quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Morristown quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Morristown quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1985 USGS Ogdensburg 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
Morristown Schoolhouse	under 500 feet	1982
Samuel Stocking House	0.2 miles	1982
Paschal Miller House	0.2 miles	1982
Stone Windmill	0.3 miles	1982
Land Office	0.3 miles	1982
Jacob Ford House	0.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004690 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lawrence County	All 83 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.