Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
From the record
“John's Church and Beth-El Temple Church of God in Christ, is a historic Episcopal church at 1874 Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York. It was built in 1858 to the design of architect Richard Upjohn (1802-1878).”
Wikipedia article Trinity Chapel (Queens), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.01001445- 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
532 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 532 fires within 5 miles of Trinity Chapel
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 356 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 33 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
360
Misuse of fire by a minor
35
Arson/incendiarism
33
Natural
33
Smoking
30
Equipment and vehicle use
16
Debris and open burning
15
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Recreation and ceremony
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
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 National Weather Service names
Far Rockaway, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2011: 2 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.
Service on the Far Rockaway branch of the Long Island Rail Road was suspended due to flooding. There was also extremely high water in the train storage yard. The Automated Surface Observing System at John F. Kennedy International Airport recorded 2.83 inches of rainfall between 3:51 and 4:51 EST and 1.39 inches between 2:51 and 3:51 EST at LaGuardia Airport with storm total amounts of 7.80 inches and 6.60 inches respectively. Other storm total rainfall amounts reported in Queens County ranged from 6.03 inches in Rego Park to 8.81 inches in South Ozone Park.
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.
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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