Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“The First Reformed Dutch Church of Bethlehem, also known as the First Reformed Church, is a historic Reformed church located at Bethlehem, New York. The church dates to about 1890, and is a 2 1/2-half story square frame building on a stone foundation.”
Wikipedia article First Reformed Dutch Church of Bethlehem, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Federal architecture
National Register reference number.02001398- 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
264 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 264 fires within 5 miles of First Reformed Dutch Church of Bethlehem
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 35 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
146
Arson/incendiarism
35
Natural
27
Railroad operations and maintenance
19
Equipment and vehicle use
14
Debris and open burning
13
Recreation and ceremony
3
Smoking
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
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. Museums hold 7,590 specimens
collected within 10 miles of First Reformed Dutch Church of Bethlehem between 1760 and 1975: 4,329 Fungi, 2,159 Animalia, 915 Plantae, 86 Protozoa, 56 Chromista, 43 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A. A. Heller and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
11 workings within 5 miles of First Reformed Dutch Church of Bethlehem: 8 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence.
8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.