Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Klyne Esopus

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Klyne Esopus, now known as Klyne Esopus Historical Society Museum, is a historic Dutch Reformed church building at 764 US 9W in Esopus, Ulster County, New York.”
Wikipedia article Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Klyne Esopus, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. 764 US 9W, Esopus, 12487
When was it listed? November 2002
Category. building
Town. Esopus town
National Register reference number. 02001321 - 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

1898 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Klyne Esopus, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Klyne Esopus, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

226 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Klyne Esopus between 1997 and 2020, burning about 224 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 32 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	136
Arson/incendiarism	32
Smoking	17
Debris and open burning	14
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
28 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ulster 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 Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Klyne Esopus: 6 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Bloating Material. 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
Eddyville	Bloating Material	Producer	Sedimentary
Eddyville Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Kingston Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Kingston Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Nytralite Aggregates	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Dwyer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dwyer Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
H. Franco and Son Sand and Stone Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hyde Park Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Morris Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Esopus, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2000	Tornado (F2)	Esopus	$50,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	$10,000	no account filed
December 2023	Flood	Esopus	$3,000	Numerous town and county roads were closed in the Town of Esopus.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	$1,000	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	$500	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Trees were downed on Route 9W in the town of Esopus.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Multiple trees were downed near Route 9W and Black Creek Road in the Town of Esopus.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	A tree and wires were downed near Old Post Road and Swartekill Road in the Town of Esopus.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	A tree was downed near Esopus.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	A tree was downed at Soper Road and Old Post Road in Rifton resulting in a road closure.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Trees were downed at Old Post Road and Swartekill Road.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Powerlines were downed.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Large tree limbs were downed.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	A tree was reported down on Old Post Road at Swarterkill Road.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	One lane of the southern portion of River Road was closed due to a downed tree.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Esopus.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Esopus due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Hail	Esopus	-	Golf ball size hail was reported in Esopus during a thunderstorm.\|\|The large hail led to the destruction of tree fruits, berries, and vegetables near Esopus, and across several other locations across Ulster County. Preliminary total damage estimates due to hail in Ulster County was near 16.6 million.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Trees down
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Trees down

Every storm recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1898 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:48000
1939 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1963 USGS Hyde Park quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1980 USGS Hyde Park quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

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
Cumming-Parker House	1.6 miles	2010
Esopus Meadows Lighthouse	1.7 miles	1979
Alton B. Parker Estate	1.8 miles	2016
Poppletown Farmhouse	2.3 miles	1991
Col. Oliver Hazard Payne Estate	3.1 miles	2002
Holy Cross Monastery	3.6 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001321 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 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.