Methodist Episcopal Church of West Martinsburg

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Methodist Episcopal Church of West Martinsburg, also known as West Martinsburg Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at West Martinsburg in Lewis County, New York. It dates to about 1840 and is of frame construction with clapboard siding.”
Wikipedia article Methodist Episcopal Church of West Martinsburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 1983 · 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. W. Martinsburg Rd., West Martinsburg, 13367
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. building
Town. Martinsburg town
National Register reference number. 83001704 - 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

43 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church of West Martinsburg between 1999 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 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	18
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
10 August 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 July 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 July 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
3 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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 Methodist Episcopal Church of West Martinsburg: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Sulfur, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Martinsburg Deposit	Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Sulfur	Occurrence
	Town of Lowville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this property

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Martinsburg, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	West Martinsburg	$15,000	no account filed
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	West Martinsburg	$500	A large tree was downed across Centreville Road.
July 2024	Flash Flood	West Martinsburg	-	Centerville Road washed out.
July 2024	Flash Flood	West Martinsburg	-	Water flowing across Rector Road near Swernicki Road. Rector Road washed out in some areas.

Every storm recorded in Lewis County

Maps showing this location

10 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 Carthage quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS West Lowville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS West Lowville quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Watertown 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
Franklin B. Hough House	2.1 miles	1966
Old Lowville Cemetery	2.2 miles	2016
Bateman Hotel	2.2 miles	1994
Lowville Masonic Temple	2.3 miles	2008
Lowville & Beaver River Railroad Historic District	2.4 miles	2024
Lowville Presbyterian Church	2.4 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001704 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis County	All 50 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.