North Settlement Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“North Settlement Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on County Route 10, east of the junction with County Route 32C in Ashland, Greene County, New York. It was built about 1826 and is a one-story, four by three bay, post and beam frame church with a modestly pitched gable roof.”
Wikipedia article North Settlement Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1996 · 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. Co. Rt. 10, E of jct. with Co. Rt. 32C, Ashland, 12496
When was it listed? May 1996
Category. building
Town. Ashland town
National Register reference number. 96000561 - 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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of North Settlement Methodist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 177 acres in total. 10 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/undetermined	34
Debris and open burning	20
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	10
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2020	Natural	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
24 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2014: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	A tree was reported down and on a house 1 mile northwest of Ashland due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Ashland as a result of thunderstorm winds.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	A tree limb was reported down on wires and burning on Sutton Hollow Road in Ashland due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2010	Hail	Ashland	-	Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Ashland.
June 2008	Hail	Ashland	-	Penny size hail was reported in Ashland during a thunderstorm.\|\|The large hail damaged tree fruits, berries and vegetables near Ashland, and across other areas within Greene County. Total preliminary crop damage estimates from the hail in Greene County were approximately $169 thousand.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Trees down on road.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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.

1901 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1945 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1946 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
Trinity Episcopal Church	2.7 miles	1996
Union Chapel	2.8 miles	2001
Methodist Episcopal Church of Windham Centre	3.0 miles	2009
Centre Presbyterian Church	3.1 miles	1979
Elijah Strong House	3.3 miles	2003
West Settlement Methodist Church	3.8 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000561 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 101 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.
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.