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Photograph of Ellis Methodist Episcopal Church
Photograph by Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ellis Methodist Episcopal Church

Built in 1896. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Ellis Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Ellis Hollow Community Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Ellis Hollow in Tompkins County, New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.”

Wikipedia article Ellis Methodist Episcopal Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Tompkins County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1896.

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. Ellis Hollow Rd., Ellis Hollow, 14850
  • When was it listed? May 1993
  • Category. building
  • Town. Dryden town
  • When was it built? 1896
  • National Register reference number. 93000443 - 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

1900 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Ellis Methodist Episcopal Church, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet covering Ellis Methodist Episcopal Church, surveyed 1900

Fires near this property

90 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Ellis Methodist Episcopal Church between 1993 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined45
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural10
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Tompkins County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ellis Methodist Episcopal Church: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Perkins Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
University QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
University QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Tompkins 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.

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
District No. 2 School, Caroline and Dryden2.3 miles2005
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church2.5 miles1995
Boardman House3.8 miles1971
Dryden District School No. 54.6 miles1994
Wing Hall5.0 miles1984
Forest Home Historic District5.0 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000443 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tompkins CountyAll 64 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.