Methodist Episcopal Church of Butler

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Methodist Episcopal Church of Butler is a historic former Methodist Episcopal church located at Butler Center in Wayne County, New York. It is a rectangular, gable roofed frame building designed in a vernacular Greek Revival style and built about 1836.”
Wikipedia article Methodist Episcopal Church of Butler, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1997 · 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Butler Center Rd., jct. with Washburn Rd., Butler Center, 14590
When was it listed? November 1997
Category. building
Town. Butler town
National Register reference number. 97001459 - 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church of Butler between 2001 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 13 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	59
Arson/incendiarism	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	5
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
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
27 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church of Butler: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
B. R. De Witt, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Highway Dept Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butler Center, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 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 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Butler Center	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees downed and blocking the roadway.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Butler Center	$10,000	Law enforcement received multiple reports of trees down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Butler Center	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed in the town of Butler.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Butler Center	$1,000	A few trees were reported to be downed.
June 2022	Hail	Butler Center	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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.

1902 USGS Clyde quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1943 USGS Wolcott quadrangle1:31680
1953 USGS Clyde quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Wolcott quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Listed places nearby

5 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
Roe Cobblestone Schoolhouse	2.1 miles	2008
Wolcott Square Historic District	4.2 miles	2001
Clyde Downtown Historic District	7.6 miles	2019
US Post Office-Clyde	7.7 miles	1988
Smith-Ely Mansion	7.7 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001459 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 40 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.