Evangelical Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4636 NY 28, Hartwick Seminary, 13326
When was it listed? October 2021
Category. building
Town. Hartwick town
National Register reference number. 100007081 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

62 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Evangelical Lutheran Church between 1997 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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	37
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
29 September 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartwick Seminary, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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	Hartwick Seminary	$50,000	no account filed
August 2023	Flash Flood	Hartwick Seminary	$3,000	County dispatch reported multiple roads were flooded in this area.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartwick Seminary	-	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds measured at 52 knots.

Every storm recorded in Otsego County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1907 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500
1909 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1945 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam 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
Mathewson-Bice Farmhouse and Mathewson Family Cemetery	3.7 miles	2013
Otsego County Courthouse	4.3 miles	1972
Chapin Memorial Church	4.4 miles	2002
US Post Office-Cooperstown	4.4 miles	1988
Hartwick Historic District	4.6 miles	2013
Cooperstown Historic District	4.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007081 in Record Group 79.
Otsego County	All 79 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.