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Photograph of East Berkshire United Methodist Church
Photograph by Maddmonkey, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

East Berkshire United Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“East Berkshire United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church located at Berkshire in Tioga County, New York. It was built in 1888 and is a simple, one story frame building with a steep standing seam metal roof and clapboard siding.”

Wikipedia article East Berkshire United Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Tioga 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. E. Berkshire Rd., Berkshire, 13736
  • When was it listed? July 1984
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Berkshire MRA
  • Town. Berkshire town
  • National Register reference number. 84003098 - 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

1903 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering East Berkshire United Methodist Church, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet covering East Berkshire United Methodist Church, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

55 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of East Berkshire United Methodist Church between 2001 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning16
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes1

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
29 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Tioga 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 East Berkshire United Methodist Church: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Harrington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tioga County

Storms near this property

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berkshire, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
June 1996Thunderstorm WindBerkshire$10,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBerkshire$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees on Akins Road as well as Ford Hill Road.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindBerkshire$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindEast Berkshire$5,000no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBerkshire$4,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBerkshire$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds moved a cow shade shelter 50 feet.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBerkshire$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds snapped a tree and uprooted another.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBerkshire-A 61 mph maximum wind gust was reported at the Berkshire NYS Mesonet.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBerkshire-Large trees were blown down.
August 2009HailBerkshire-no account filed
July 2008HailBerkshire-no account filed
June 2007HailBerkshire-no account filed
July 2007HailBerkshire-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tioga 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.

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
Nathaniel Bishop Collins House2.0 miles1984
Calvin A. Buffington House2.0 miles1984
Berkshire Village Historic District2.1 miles1984
J. Ball House2.2 miles1984
Stephen Ball House2.2 miles1984
Robert Akins House2.2 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84003098 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tioga CountyAll 57 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.