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Bates Christian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie County · listed in 2023 · 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. 1061 Bates Church Rd., Broome, 12469
  • When was it listed? August 2023
  • Category. building
  • Town. Broome town
  • National Register reference number. 100009194 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Bates Christian Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 July 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 July 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Maps showing this location

10 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

2 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
Livingstonville Community Church3.1 miles2008
Breakabeen Historic District7.8 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100009194 in Record Group 79.
Schoharie CountyAll 52 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.