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Photograph of Glen Wild Methodist Church
Photograph by Vonsky87, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Glen Wild Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

“Glen Wild Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on Old Glen Wild Road in Glen Wild, Sullivan County, New York. It was built in 1867 and is a rectangular, wood-frame building with board and batten siding in a vernacular Gothic Revival style.”

Wikipedia article Glen Wild Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1984 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Old Glen Wild Rd., Glen Wild, 12738
  • When was it listed? May 1984
  • Category. building
  • Town. Fallsburg town
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 84003035 - 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

164 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Glen Wild Methodist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 206 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined56
Smoking32
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism20
Natural15
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2012Natural4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 August 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2017Debris and open burning1.9 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Glen Wild Methodist Church: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bridgeville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bridgeville Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Goodwin Sand and Gravel, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maston Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maston Lake PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Monticello Black Top PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Wild, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011FloodGlen Wild$50,000The Neversink River at Bridgeville crested at 18.02 feet at 900 pm EST August 28th, 2011.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGlen Wild$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto live wires, and the trees caught on fire.
July 2011HailGlen Wild-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue1.1 miles1999
Silver Lake Dam3.1 miles2000
Ohave Shalom Synagogue3.2 miles2000
Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue3.4 miles2001
Rivoli Theatre3.4 miles2001
South Fallsburg Hebrew Association Synagogue3.6 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84003035 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan CountyAll 79 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.