Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Harlemville and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Harlemville and Cemetery is a historic Lutheran church and cemetery at County 21 and Pheasant Lane, Harlemville Road at Ten Broeck Road in Harlemville, Columbia County, New York. The church was built 1871-1873 and is a one-story, rectangular wood-frame building with clapboard siding and a gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Harlemville and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2002 · 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Cty. 21 and Pheasant Ln., Harlemville Rd. at Ten Broeck Rd., Harlemville, 12529
When was it listed? January 2002
Category. building
Town. Hillsdale town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 01001505 - 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Harlemville and Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 171 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 11 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	58
Debris and open burning	23
Natural	19
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2016	Debris and open burning	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 July 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
28 July 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 July 2012	Natural	3.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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 Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Harlemville and Cemetery: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Philmont Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Philmont Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Haight Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Haight Limonte Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Limonite
Haight Mine/Goodsell Bog Mn Occurrence	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	Residual
Hillsdale Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Goodsell Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Producer
Goodsell Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Past Producer
Palmer Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Occurrence
Palmer Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harlemville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2025	Heavy Rain	Harlemville	-	A trained spotter in the Town of Hillsdale reported 3.2 inches of rain as of 0935 AM EST. This spotter also reported that culverts are flooded and that debris and sediment is causing minor flooding on Pheasant Lane.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Harlemville	-	Tree was downed on Rigor Hill Road near Pratt Hill Road.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Harlemville	-	Flash flooding from thunderstorm heavy rain was reported in the town of Hillsdale. A portion of Harlemville Road, off County Route 21, was washed out due to the flood waters.

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1903 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1933 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Philmont Historic District (Additional Documentation)	3.5 miles	2024
North Hillsdale Methodist Church	4.3 miles	2010
Daniel and Clarissa Baldwin House	4.3 miles	2012
Mellenville Railroad Station	4.4 miles	2000
St. Peter's Presbyterian Church and Spencertown Cemetery	4.4 miles	2002
Spencertown Academy	4.4 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001505 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia County	All 155 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.