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Christ Lutheran Church and Parsonage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Christ Lutheran Church and Parsonage, originally the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ellenville, is a historic Lutheran church and parsonage located at Ellenville, Ulster County, New York. The church was built in 1862 in the Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Christ Lutheran Church (Ellenville, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2010 · 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. 105-107 Center St, Ellenville, 12428
When was it listed? May 2010
Category. building
Town. Wawarsing town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 10000304 - 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Christ Lutheran Church and Parsonage between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,237 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 22 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	67
Debris and open burning	26
Arson/incendiarism	22
Natural	12
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	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
4 September 1995	Smoking	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
30 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Christ Lutheran Church and Parsonage: 3 prospects, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Lead, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ellenville Mine	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	Vein
Ellenville Mine	Zinc, Lead	Prospect
Sun Ray Tunnel Deposit	Zinc, Lead	Prospect
Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ulster Mine Near Spring Glen	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Vein
Wawarsing Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Spring Glen Deposit	Zinc	Prospect

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellenville, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	1 killed, $500	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	$80,000	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	$35,000	A National Weather Service survey team determined that a wet microburst occurred in Ellenville. The strong wind blew down about 30 trees, damaging 2 homes and destroying a car. The estimated cost of the damage was 35 thousand dollars.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	$5,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	$1,000	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	$500	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	-	A 911 call center gave multiple reports of trees down in and near the town of Ellenville.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	-	Trees and wires were reported down.
September 2021	Flash Flood	Ellenville	-	Route 209 at Old Minisink Trail was reported closed due to flooding.
July 2015	Hail	Ellenville	-	Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Ellenville.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Ellenville	-	Thunderstorm heavy rainfall led to flash flooding in Ellenville. Route 209 was closed between Oak Ridge Road and Hang Glider Road as a result of the flooding.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	-	Route 52 was closed in both directions in Wawarsing due to downed trees from thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	-	Trees were downed due to thunderstorm winds in Ellenville.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	-	A utility pole was snapped and wires were down at 826 Oakridge Road in Ellenville due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	-	A tree was reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Ellenville.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	-	A tree and limbs were reported down across Carl Street in Ellenville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	-	Trees and wires were reported down on Mountain Road just south of Ellenville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	-	Law enforcement personnel reported that trees and wires were blown down in Ellenville.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellenville	-	Trees blown down.
May 2004	Hail	Ellenville	-	1 inch hail covering ground reported in Village of Shawangunk.
May 2004	Hail	Ellenville	-	3/4 inch hail reported in Village of Shawangunk.

Every storm recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1904 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Monticello 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
US Post Office-Ellenville	under 500 feet	1988
Ellenville Downtown Historic District	0.2 miles	2012
Hoornbeek Store Complex	1.9 miles	1984
Ontario and Western Railroad Passenger Station	2.1 miles	1999
O & W Railroad Station at Port Ben	3.3 miles	2002
Cragsmoor Historic District	3.3 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000304 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 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.
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.