Tompkins Corners United Methodist Church

Built in 1891. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Tompkins Corners United Methodist Church - now known as the Tompkins Corners Cultural Center - is located along Peekskill Hollow Road in Putnam Valley, New York, United States. It is a wooden frame structure built in the 1890s.”
Wikipedia article Tompkins Corners United Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Putnam County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1891.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Peekskill Hollow Rd., Putnam Valley, 10579
When was it listed? March 1983
Category. building
Town. Putnam Valley town
When was it built? 1891
National Register reference number. 83001759 - 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

405 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 405 fires within 5 miles of Tompkins Corners United Methodist Church between 1993 and 2020, burning about 317 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 45 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	215
Arson/incendiarism	45
Smoking	39
Debris and open burning	37
Natural	25
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Recreation and ceremony	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Other causes	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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Tompkins Corners United Methodist Church: 35 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Titanium, Stone. 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
Croft Magnetite Mine	Iron, Sulfur	Past Producer	Magnetite, Pyrite
Croft Mine	Iron, Sulfur	Past Producer
Denny Mine	Titanium, Iron	Prospect
Nathaniel Bradley's Limonite Pits	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	Limonite
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Hk-027	Stone	Past Producer
N. Bradley's Limonite Pit	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	Residual
Nathaniel Bradley's Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer
Wood Avenue Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Wood Avenue Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this property

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Putnam Valley, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Putnam Valley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Putnam County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1892 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:48000
1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Oscawana Lake quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Indian Brook Road Historic District	5.9 miles	1993
Old Albany Post Road	6.1 miles	1982
Reed Memorial Library	6.6 miles	1980
Putnam County Courthouse	6.6 miles	1976
Gilead Cemetery	6.7 miles	1988
Old Albany Post Road	6.7 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001759 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Putnam County	All 49 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.