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First Reformed Church of College Point

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 118-07, 118-09, 118-19 14th Ave., Queens, 11356
  • When was it listed? November 2018
  • Category. district
  • Borough. Queens
  • National Register reference number. 100003117 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

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 First Reformed Church of College Point, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering First Reformed Church of College Point, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

2,262 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,262 fires within 5 miles of First Reformed Church of College Point between 2002 and 2020, burning about 480 acres in total. 143 started naturally. 102 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/undetermined1609
Natural143
Smoking143
Arson/incendiarism102
Recreation and ceremony76
Debris and open burning62
Equipment and vehicle use61
Misuse of fire by a minor53
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Other causes1

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 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of First Reformed Church of College Point: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
National Gypsum/ Bronx MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Queens County

Storms near this property

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Queens, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1997Thunderstorm WindQueens-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Queens County

Maps showing this location

15 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
Firemen's Hall0.2 miles2000
Poppenhusen Institute0.2 miles1977
RKO Keith's Theater1.8 miles1982
Flushing Town Hall1.8 miles1972
Flushing High School1.9 miles1992
Old Quaker Meetinghouse1.9 miles1967

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100003117 in Record Group 79.
Queens CountyAll 108 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.