Fly Creek Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

“Fly Creek Methodist Church, also known as First Methodist Episcopal Society in Fly Creek, is a historic Methodist church on County Route 26, north of the junction with conjoined NY 28 and NY 80 in Fly Creek, Otsego County, New York. It was built in 1838 and is a plain, clapboarded, timber-frame building on a fieldstone foundation with a frontal gable in the Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Fly Creek Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Rt. 26, N of jct. with NY 28, Fly Creek, 13337
When was it listed? August 1996
Category. building
Town. Otsego town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 96000859 - 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

41 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Fly Creek Methodist Church between 1995 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 4 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	23
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
29 September 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fly Creek, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Fly Creek	$10,000	no account filed
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Fly Creek	$5,000	Trees and wires were blown down.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Fly Creek	$5,000	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Fly Creek	$2,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in trees being knocked over.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Fly Creek	$500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down.

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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.

1907 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500
1909 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1945 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam 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
Fly Creek Grange No. 844	0.2 miles	2004
Fly Creek Historic District	0.4 miles	2006
Chapin Memorial Church	0.9 miles	2002
Mathewson-Bice Farmhouse and Mathewson Family Cemetery	1.6 miles	2013
Cooperstown Historic District (Boundary Increase)	2.8 miles	1997
Otsego County Courthouse	3.0 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000859 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otsego County	All 79 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.