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All Saints Chapel and Morris Family Burial Ground

Built in 1791. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“All Saints Chapel and Morris Family Burial Ground is a historic Episcopal church located at Morris in Otsego County, New York. The church is a small stone Gothic Revival style chapel built from about 1866 to 1868.”

Wikipedia article All Saints Chapel and Morris Family Burial Ground, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1791.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. NY 51, 3 mi. S of Morris, Morris, 13808
  • When was it listed? November 1997
  • Category. building
  • Town. Morris town
  • When was it built? 1791
  • National Register reference number. 97001455 - 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

46 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of All Saints Chapel and Morris Family Burial Ground between 1995 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning10
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
8 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 June 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

20 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morris, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Flash FloodMorris$50,000A bridge was flooded. Hay bales were blocking the creek underpass. The local fire department was flooded out.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMorris$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees in Morris.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindMorris$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees on 434 CR-51.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindMorris$5,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees and wires.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMorris$5,000Wires and a transformer were blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMorris$5,000Several trees were blown down in Morris, including one on a house.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMorris$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in Morris and New Lisbon.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindMorris$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires in the area.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMorris$2,000Trees and wires downed.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindMorris$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto the road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMorris$1,000Trees and wires were blown down.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindMorris$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and wires.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMorris-Large tree limbs were broken.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindMorris-Trees down.
May 2000Flash FloodMorris-County highways 13, 51 and 49 were flooded following heavy thunderstorm rains. Other roads were also closed and bridges damaged due to flooding. The city water supply became contaminated during the flooding and residents had to boil water before use for several days afterward. One bridge was destroyed on Route 13 and another was undermined on Route 51. Flash flooding along Silver Creek also damaged residences along its banks. A State of Emergency was declared due to the serious nature of the flooding.
August 2011HailMorris-no account filed
June 2011HailMorris-no account filed
June 2009HailMorris-no account filed
June 2008HailMorris-no account filed
June 2007HailMorris-no account filed

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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Morris-Lull Farm2.1 miles2005
St. Stephen's Chapel2.3 miles2021
Gilbertsville Water Works3.1 miles2011
Gilbertsville Historic District (Boundary Increase)3.3 miles1982
Major's Inn and Gilbert Block3.3 miles1973
Gilbertsville Historic District3.3 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97001455 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otsego CountyAll 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.