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Reformed Church on Staten Island

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“The Reformed Church on Staten Island is a historic Dutch Reformed Church and cemetery at 54 Port Richmond Avenue in Port Richmond, Staten Island, New York.”

Wikipedia article Reformed Church on Staten Island, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 2005 · 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. 54 Port Richmond Ave., Staten Island, 10302
  • When was it listed? January 2005
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Staten Island
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 04001533 - 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 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 97 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 Church on Staten Island, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Reformed Church on Staten Island, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

1,479 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,479 fires within 5 miles of Reformed Church on Staten Island between 1992 and 2020, burning about 771 acres in total. 158 started naturally. 94 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/undetermined1028
Natural158
Arson/incendiarism94
Smoking73
Equipment and vehicle use47
Debris and open burning36
Fireworks23
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Reformed Church on Staten Island: 5 past producers, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Kaolin, REE. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Georgia Kaolin/ Elizabeth, N.J.KaolinUnknown
Varlacoid Chemical/Elizabeth, N.J.REEUnknown
Cooper & Hewitt MineIronPast Producer
Iron Oxide Crppigments/ElizabethIronPast Producer
New Dorp MineIronPast Producer
Seneca Coal/ Elizabeth, N.J.IronUnknown
Tyson MineIronPast Producer
Tyson's Mine & 2 Additional MinesIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Richmond County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Temple Emanu-El0.5 miles2007
Richmond Terrace Cemeteries0.6 miles2016
West Brighton Plaza0.8 miles2024
Scott-Edwards House0.9 miles1983
Calvary Presbyterian Church1.1 miles2002
Kreuzer-Pelton House1.1 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001533 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richmond CountyAll 63 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.