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North Presbyterian Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“The North Presbyterian Church is a building and Presbyterian congregation at 525 West 155th Street in Manhattan, New York City. Its congregation is a combination of three former congregations: North Presbyterian Church, Washington Heights Presbyterian Church, and St.”
Wikipedia article North Presbyterian Church (Manhattan), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 601 National Register listings published here for New York County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 13001153 - 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.
18911995
Fires near this property
2,128 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2,128 fires within 5 miles of North Presbyterian Church
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 610 acres in total. 112 started naturally. 113 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
1476
Smoking
141
Recreation and ceremony
122
Arson/incendiarism
113
Natural
112
Debris and open burning
59
Equipment and vehicle use
51
Misuse of fire by a minor
37
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
6
Other causes
5
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
17 workings within 5 miles of North Presbyterian Church: 10 occurrences, 7 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Garnet, Iron, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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.
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