Vernon Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Vernon Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church at the junction of NY 5 and Sconondoa Street in Vernon, Oneida County, New York. It was built in 1892 and is a rectangular structure consisting of a square sanctuary with projecting, gable roofed wall bays on three sides and an attached parish hall wing.”
Wikipedia article Vernon Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Oneida County · listed in 1998 · 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. Jct. of NY 5 and Sconondoa St., Vernon, 13476
When was it listed? May 1998
Category. building
Town. Vernon town
Architect. Melvin H. Hubbard
National Register reference number. 98000547 - 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

89 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Vernon Methodist Church between 2000 and 2019, burning about 61 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 19 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	37
Debris and open burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	19
Natural	7
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Vernon Methodist Church: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Iron. 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
Klein Farm	Iron	Past Producer
Valley Mills Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Johnson Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lanz Gravel Bed	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Vernon Gravel Bed	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this property

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vernon, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2013: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Vernon	$5,000	Trees were blown down at both Vernon and Delta Dam.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Vernon	$2,000	Trees were knocked down in Vernon, Verona and Moreland.
May 2008	Hail	Vernon	$2,000	Nickel to quarter size hail was also reported with this storm. The storm also knocked down small tree branches.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Vernon	$1,000	A few trees and some wires down
April 2001	Flood	Vernon	-	Thunderstorms early in the morning of April 8th produced heavy rains across portions of Oneida county and created some locallized flooding. Portions of Route 233 and River Street in Oriskany, Mohawk Street in Whitestown, and Wurz Avenue in North Utica were closed due to flooding. Portions of Route 5 were also closed due to flooding. Most roads were reopened by the morning of April 10th.
May 2000	Flash Flood	Vernon	-	Route 5 was reported to be under 1 to 2 feet of water as a result of heavy thunderstorm rains. Some residences were also damaged. One woman had to be rescued from a flooded trailer. Bartholemew Park sustained significant flood damage.
May 2008	Hail	Vernon	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Vernon	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Vernon	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Vernon	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Vernon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1895 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1939 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Vernon quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Vernon quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Utica quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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
Vernon Center Green Historic District	2.7 miles	1985
Rev. Asahel Norton Homestead	6.3 miles	1985
Hamilton College Chapel	7.1 miles	1972
Elihu Root House	7.2 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000547 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oneida County	All 90 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.