Church of the Resurrection

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“The Church of the Resurrection is a historic Episcopal church and rectory in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York City. It was originally built in 1874 as a frame, Gothic Revival style church.”
Wikipedia article Church of the Resurrection (Queens), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 2003 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 85-09 118th St., Kew Gardens, Borough of Queens, 10475
When was it listed? March 2003
Category. building
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture, Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 03000090 - 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

1,502 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,502 fires within 5 miles of Church of the Resurrection between 2002 and 2020, burning about 395 acres in total. 97 started naturally. 85 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	1063
Natural	97
Arson/incendiarism	85
Recreation and ceremony	82
Smoking	79
Equipment and vehicle use	40
Debris and open burning	38
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	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 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2015	Natural	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Church of the Resurrection: 1 past producer. None of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Star Sand and Gravel Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Queens County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1891 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1898 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 16 printings
1947 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1995 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000

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
1964-1965 New York World's Fair New York State Pavilion	3.2 miles	2009
First Reformed Church of College Point	6.7 miles	2018
Firemen's Hall	6.7 miles	2000
Fort Totten Officers' Club	6.8 miles	1986
Poppenhusen Institute	6.9 miles	1977
Steinway House	8.0 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000090 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Queens County	All 108 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.