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One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 7558 Amboy Road, Staton Island, 10307
- When was it listed? December 2025
- Category. building
- Borough. Staten Island
- National Register reference number. 100012404 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1898 to 1986The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
771 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 771 fires within 5 miles of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,683 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 122 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 | 438 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 122 |
| Natural | 48 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 37 |
| Smoking | 28 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 26 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.9 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 7 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church: 3 producers, 3 plants, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sulfur, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Asarco Refinery/ Perth Amboy, N.J. | Copper, Silver | Plant | ||
| (Facility) Chevron Refinery/ Perth Amboy, N.J. | Sulfur | Plant | ||
| Engelhard Minerals & Chem/ Carteret | Platinum | Plant | ||
| Crossman Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Crossman Co. Clay Mine | Clay | Producer | ||
| Mainstreet Clay Mine | Clay | Producer | ||
| Sayreville Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Maps showing this location
16 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.
- 1898 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
- 1905 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
- 1942 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Arthur Kill quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Arthur Kill quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Arthur Kill quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1984 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Conference House | 0.5 miles | 1966 |
 | House at 5910 Amboy Road | 2.6 miles | 1982 |
 | Seguine House | 2.7 miles | 1980 |
 | Woodrow Methodist Church | 3.4 miles | 1982 |
| Messiah Lutheran Church | 4.3 miles | 2025 | |
| Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. Farmhouse | 5.0 miles | 2020 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012404 in Record Group 79. |
| Richmond County | All 63 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.