St. Paul's Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Paul's Episcopal Church, is a historic Lutheran church at 464 Main Street in Oak Hill, Greene County, New York. The original section was built in 1843 and is a heavy timber frame rectangular structure, three bays wide by four bays deep, in a conventional meeting house style.”
Wikipedia article St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Oak Hill, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 464 Main St., Oak Hill, 12460
When was it listed? July 2005
Category. building
Town. Durham town
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 05000682 - 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

104 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of St. Paul's Lutheran Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 18 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	49
Arson/incendiarism	18
Debris and open burning	16
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
8 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Hill, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Hill	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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.

1893 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1945 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
W.F. DeWitt Hotel	0.1 miles	2001
Ford's Store	0.1 miles	2001
Oak Hill Historic District	0.2 miles	2017
L.E. Cleveland House	0.2 miles	2001
Charles Pierce House	0.2 miles	2001
A. T. House	0.2 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000682 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 101 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.
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.