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Photograph of St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Photograph by JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ, M.D, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“Paul's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church at 26 S. Madison Avenue in Spring Valley, Rockland County, New York.”

Wikipedia article St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Spring Valley, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 2008 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 26 S. Madison Ave, Spring Valley, 10977
  • When was it listed? July 2008
  • Category. building
  • Town. Ramapo town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 08000593 - 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

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering St. Paul's Episcopal Church, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering St. Paul's Episcopal Church, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

2,225 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,225 fires within 5 miles of St. Paul's Episcopal Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,941 acres in total. 110 started naturally. 173 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/undetermined1297
Smoking365
Arson/incendiarism173
Natural110
Recreation and ceremony100
Equipment and vehicle use77
Debris and open burning51
Misuse of fire by a minor33
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2001Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of St. Paul's Episcopal Church: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mount Ivy Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mount Ivy Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Suffern QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
West Nyack QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
West Nyack Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland 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
US Post Office-Spring Valley0.1 miles1989
North Main Street School0.8 miles2008
Houser-Conklin House2.0 miles2010
Brick Church Complex2.3 miles1984
English Church and Schoolhouse2.8 miles1977
Blauvelt-Cropsey Farm2.8 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000593 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rockland CountyAll 93 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.