Port Gibson United Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Port Gibson United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church located at Port Gibson in Ontario County, New York. The church was constructed in 1871 and is an imposing example of Romanesque Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Port Gibson United Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Ontario 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. 2951 Greig St., Port Gibson, 14537
When was it listed? November 1996
Category. building
Town. Manchester town
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 96001387 - 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

176 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Port Gibson United Methodist Church between 2003 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 32 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	104
Arson/incendiarism	32
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Debris and open burning	10
Natural	10
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
24 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ontario County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Port Gibson United Methodist Church: 8 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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	Recorded
Blackmar's Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Port Gibson Quarries	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Winslow Heth Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Abam Cleason Co. Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Graf Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit No. 11	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mackenzie Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Palmyra Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plant Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Smith Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Ontario County

Storms near this property

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Gibson, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 4 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
June 2008	Hail	Port Gibson	$50,000	no account filed
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Gibson	$2,000	Several trees were reported down.
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Gibson	-	no account filed
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Gibson	-	no account filed
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Gibson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ontario County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1899 USGS Palmyra quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1902 USGS Palmyra quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1943 USGS Palmyra quadrangle1:31680
1952 USGS Palmyra quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Rochester 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
Harmon Cobblestone Farmhouse and Cobblestone Smokehouse	3.5 miles	1992
Clifton Springs Sanitarium	5.3 miles	1979
Clifton Springs Sanitarium Historic District	5.3 miles	1990
Phelps Town Hall	7.4 miles	1996
St. John's Episcopal Church	7.5 miles	1978
Dr. John Quincy Howe House	7.5 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001387 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ontario County	All 78 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.