Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church, also known as Capel Cerrig, is a historic Calvinistic Methodist church on Prospect Street in Remsen, Oneida County, New York. It was built in 1831 and is a vernacular stone meeting house building.”
Wikipedia article Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church (Remsen, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Oneida County · listed in 1988 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Prospect St., Remsen, 13438
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. building
Town. Remsen town
National Register reference number. 87002275 - 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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	13
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	N SHORE HINKLEY LAKE
21 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 July 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BRANDY LAKE FIRE
4 June 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
29 June 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
26 June 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Barneeveld Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mccartney Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Spear Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Swamp Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this property

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Remsen, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Remsen	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down numerous trees.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Remsen	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down wires.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Remsen	$5,000	Several trees uprooted from thunderstorm winds.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Remsen	$5,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Remsen	$5,000	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Remsen	$1,000	Trees and wires were blown down.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Remsen	$1,000	Trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Hail	Remsen	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1897 USGS Remsen quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Remsen quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1946 USGS Remsen quadrangle1:31680
1947 USGS Remsen quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Remsen quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Utica 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
von Steuben, Baron, Memorial Site	2.6 miles	2009
Mappa Hall	3.7 miles	1982
Wethersfield Stone Schoolhouse	5.0 miles	2005
Holland Patent Railroad Station	6.9 miles	2000
Holland Patent Stone Churches Historic District	6.9 miles	1991
Camroden Presbyterian Church	7.0 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002275 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oneida County	All 90 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.