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Photograph of Eden Congregational Church
Photograph by Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Eden Congregational Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Eden Congregational Church, also known as Pioneer Chapel, is a historic church building located just north of downtown Hayward in Alameda County, California. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.”

Wikipedia article Eden Congregational Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Alameda County · listed in 2007 · 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. 1046 Grove Way, Hayward, 94541
  • When was it listed? August 2007
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Hayward
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 07000788 - 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.

Then and now

1899 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Eden Congregational Church, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet covering Eden Congregational Church, surveyed 1899

Fires near this property

279 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of Eden Congregational Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 433 acres in total. None 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/undetermined189
Smoking28
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
4 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Alameda County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Eden Congregational Church: 6 producers, 4 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Halite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
American Salt Co.HaliteProducer
Chabot QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
East Bay Excavation CoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oliver Bros. Salt Co.HaliteProducer
La Vista Quarry and MillStoneProducer
La Vista Quarry and MillStoneProducer
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in Alameda County

Storms near this property

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hayward, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1998: 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
January 1998Heavy RainHayward1 killedrain slick road and poor visibility caused auto accident
February 1998Flash FloodHayward-Flash flood on Castro Valley Creek.

Every storm recorded in Alameda County

Maps showing this location

20 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Green Shutter Hotel0.9 miles2004
Meek Mansion and Carriage House1.1 miles1973
Casa Peralta3.7 miles1982
Peralta House5.1 miles1978
Dunsmuir House5.2 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000788 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Alameda CountyAll 160 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.