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Christian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

“Christian Church, also known as Fitches Bridge Church, is a historic church on NY 10 at East Delhi in Delaware County, New York. It was built in 1861 and is in the Greek Revival style with an overlay of Gothic Revival decoration.”

Wikipedia article Christian Church (East Delhi, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 10, East Delhi, 13753
  • When was it listed? March 2001
  • Category. building
  • Town. Delhi town
  • National Register reference number. 01000250 - 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

45 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Christian Church between 1995 and 2016, burning about 75 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined32
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Christian Church: 3 producers. All of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Adair PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bloomville Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kortright PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Delhi, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2013Flash FloodEast Delhi$40,000Flood waters were rushing down the hillsides and across much of Route 10 from Delhi to Bloomville.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Delhi$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down multiple trees and wires.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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.

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
Fitches Covered Bridgeunder 500 feet1999
Judge Gideon Frisbee House0.6 miles1976
Murray Hill2.1 miles1982
St. John's Church Complex2.4 miles1995
Delaware County Courthouse Square District2.4 miles1973
US Post Office-Delhi2.5 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000250 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware CountyAll 78 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.