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One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
North Harpersfield Churches
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 4289 and 4298 County Road 29, Jefferson, 12093
- When was it listed? May 2024
- Category. building
- Town. Harpersfield town
- National Register reference number. 100010271 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
54 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of North Harpersfield Churches between 1993 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 3 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 | 24 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2015 | Other causes | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 17 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 June 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 19 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 9 May 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 5 May 2013 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 3 May 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 26 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of North Harpersfield Churches: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town of Harpersfield Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited 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 Hobart quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1945 USGS Harpersfield quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Harpersfield quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Harpersfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
4 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Churchill Park Historic District | 5.2 miles | 1980 | |
| Erskine L. Seeley House | 5.9 miles | 2010 | |
| Hobart Masonic Hall | 7.0 miles | 2001 | |
| St. Peter's Episcopal Church Complex | 7.2 miles | 1998 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010271 in Record Group 79. |
| Delaware County | All 78 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.