Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“First Presbyterian Church of Hector is a historic Presbyterian church located at Hector in Schuyler County, New York. It was built in 1818 and is a large, rectangular Federal era frame building distinguished by a variety of Georgian inspired design and decorative features in the New England tradition of meeting house architecture.”
Wikipedia article First Presbyterian Church of Hector, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Schuyler County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.01000547- 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
95 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 95 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Hector
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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
39
Debris and open burning
25
Recreation and ceremony
8
Arson/incendiarism
8
Natural
5
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Smoking
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Hector: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hector, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
A severe thunderstorm moved through the county during the afternoon. Numerous trees and telephone poles were blown down with damage to roofing and siding occurring in Hector and Mecklenburg at 3:00 pm EDT.
Emergency management reported damage to trees and a garage caused by thunderstorm winds approximately 3 miles north of Hector. A National Weather Service survey found evidence of a microburst with localized eddy swirling due to layout of property. The free standing one car garage was lifted and moved approximately 4 feet to the southeast of its original location. The damage to the garage indicated estimated wind speeds of 60 to 70 mph. Scattered trees around the property were uprooted mostly in a northwest to southeast orientation. There may have been some local swirling of the wind gust due to the "concave" nature of the property which was a yard cut into a densely forested area. Small branches were down around the property and across the street. The home owner stated she heard a couple rumbles of thunder...then the wind, rain and damage occurred simultaneously (on the front flank of the storm), and lasted a minute or less.
A very slow moving thunderstorm dumped torrential rains across central and eastern sections of the county during the late afternoon and early evening hours. Several roads were closed due to high water conditions, including county route 5 and State route 414 in the town of Hector. Thunderstorms dissipated by late in the evening and water levels receded allowing roads to reopen after 900 pm EDT.
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.
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.
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.
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