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Photograph of Church of St. John the Evangelist
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Church of St. John the Evangelist

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“John the Evangelist was a historic Episcopal church on Chittenden Road in Stockport, Columbia County, New York. It was completed in August, 1846 at a cost of $12,000 and consecrated by Bishop Heathcote Delancey of the Diocese of Western New York on July 3, 1847.”

Wikipedia article Church of St. John the Evangelist (Stockport, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Chittenden Rd., Stockport, 12534
  • When was it listed? April 1972
  • Category. building
  • Town. Stockport town
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 72000827 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

215 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Church of St. John the Evangelist between 1992 and 2020, burning about 223 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined95
Debris and open burning29
Natural24
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use18
Smoking13
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
9 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
19 September 2011Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Church of St. John the Evangelist: 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brick Tavern-Mount Ida Limestone QuStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Brick Tavern-Mount Ida Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Cox Sackie Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Cox Sackie Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cox Sackie Clay PitClayProducer
Cox Sackie Clay PitClayPast Producer
West Athens Clay PitClayProducer
West Athens Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockport, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2005: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2001HailStockport$20,000no account filed
May 2001HailStockport$11,000no account filed
June 2000HailStockport$10,000no account filed
June 2002HailStockport$9,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindStockport$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindStockport$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindStockport$5,000no account filed
July 2003HailStockport$1,000no account filed
August 1999HailStockport$1,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindStockport$500no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindStockport-Trees down
June 2004Thunderstorm WindStockport-Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Smith Octagon House1.4 miles2025
Van Salsbergen House2.7 miles2010
Van Valkenburgh-Isbister Farm3.0 miles2006
Stuyvesant Falls Mill District3.4 miles1976
Turtle House3.4 miles2001
Jan Van Hoesen House3.6 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72000827 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia CountyAll 155 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.
  • 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.