Nelson Welsh Congregational Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Nelson Welsh Congregational Church is a historic Congregational church located at Nelson, Madison County, New York. It was built in 1876, and is a one-story, three bay by four bay, timber-frame structure with a gable roof and stone foundation.”
Wikipedia article Nelson Welsh Congregational Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1993 · 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Welsh Church and Old State Rds., Nelson, 13061
When was it listed? August 1993
Category. building
Town. Nelson town
National Register reference number. 93000681 - 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Nelson Welsh Congregational Church between 1992 and 2019, burning about 18 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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	14
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 June 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 June 1992	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
8 May 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 May 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Nelson Welsh Congregational Church: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
Dwight Graham No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Cazenovia Gravel Bed	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cazenovia Ready Mix Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Riedel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nelson, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2013	Flash Flood	Nelson	$100,000	Numerous roads were washed out in the area.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Nelson	$50,000	Strong thunderstorm winds caused roof and siding damage to a house, along with a dozen trees knocked down. The resident also found barn debris on property from upwind location on Cody Road.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Nelson	$20,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down several trees and caused minor damage to a couple of roofs.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Nelson	$10,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in five trees being knocked over and four trees being snapped off.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Nelson	$8,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in two trees being knocked over. This storm also caused a metal framed canvas shelter to flip over.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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.

1897 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1943 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1944 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich 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
Nelson Methodist Episcopal Church	1.5 miles	2017
Abell Farmhouse and Barn	3.6 miles	1987
Dorothy Riester House and Studio	4.1 miles	2014
Crandall Farm Complex	4.2 miles	1987
Maples, The	4.3 miles	1987
Zephnia Comstock Farmhouse	4.5 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000681 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 83 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.