Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
From the record
“Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Parish is a historic Roman Catholic parish church complex in the Diocese of Brooklyn, located at 94-40 118th Street in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York City.”
Wikipedia article Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Church (Queens), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.06001297- 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
1889 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18891994
Fires near this property
2,863 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2,863 fires within 5 miles of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Parish
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,513 acres in total. 162 started naturally. 140 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
2121
Natural
162
Arson/incendiarism
140
Smoking
140
Misuse of fire by a minor
101
Debris and open burning
75
Equipment and vehicle use
70
Recreation and ceremony
38
Power generation/transmission/distribution
12
Fireworks
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
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. The National Weather Service names
Richmond Hill, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 14 flash flood, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 2 hail.
The reports record 7 injuries. 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.
A portion of the service road for the Van Wyck Expressway was closed due to flooding in Kew Gardens, Queens. In addition, two lanes were blocked due to flooding on the Van Wyck Expressway northbound approaching the Grand Central Parkway. Only one lane remained passable.
All lanes were blocked with several disabled vehicles due to flooding on the eastbound Grand Central Pkwy. at the Kew Gardens Interchange. All lanes were also blocked due to flooding on the northbound Van Wyck Expressway between JFK Federal Circle and the Grand Central Pkwy.
A National Weather Service Storm Survey verified the occurance of a macroburst in Queens. The path extended from Middle Village east across Forest Hills.||In Forest Hills, at MacDonald Park, a field of trees were sheared off which completely demolished the park. Many whole trees and large branches were downed in a divergent pattern. This was a clear signature of macroburst wind damage.||The area of the macroburst was bounded by Queens Boulevard and 69th Road to the northeast near the intersection of Yellowstone Boulevard.||Just southwest of the Long Island Expressway along 63rd Avenue and near the intersections of Reeves Avenue and 146th Street, many huge healthy 36 inch diameter trees fell in nearly the same direction in narrow roads. Downed trees destroyed many cars and made entries to houses impassable. Widespread tree damage made many secondary and tertiary roads impassable.||Many whole trees and large branches were downed near Queens College, along Dartmouth Street and in Forest Hills Garden, and along Park Drive East in Kew Garden Hills.
The Kew Gardens Interchange (where the Van Wyck Expressway, Grand Central Pkwy and Jackie Robinson Pkwy all intersect), was closed in all directions with occupied vehicles stuck in rising water. Mesonet sources in Forest Hills and Rego Park reported storm total rainfall of 2.46 inches and 2.18 inches respectively.
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.
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.
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.
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