West 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

“West Settlement Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on West Settlement Road at the junction with Cleveland Road in Ashland, Greene County, New York. It was built in 1832 and is a one-story, three by four bay, post and beam structure on a limestone block foundation.”
Wikipedia article West 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. West Settlement Rd., jct. with Cleveland Rd., Ashland, 12468
When was it listed? December 1996
Category. building
Town. Ashland town
National Register reference number. 96001435 - 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of West Settlement Methodist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 3 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	22
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	8
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
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
14 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
30 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 July 2013	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

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
Morss Homestead/Federal City Homestead	2.0 miles	1983
Elijah Strong House	2.5 miles	2003
Pratt Rock Park	2.5 miles	1992
Zadock Pratt House	3.4 miles	1986
John and Martinus Laraway Inn	3.4 miles	2012
Old Episcopal Manse	3.4 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001435 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.