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Fort Herkimer Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
From the record
“Fort Herkimer Church, also known as the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of German Flatts, is a historic church located in East Herkimer, Herkimer County, New York. It was built in 1767, and expanded in 1812.”
Wikipedia article Fort Herkimer Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.72000843- 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
82 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Fort Herkimer Church
between 2003 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 18 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
38
Arson/incendiarism
18
Natural
8
Debris and open burning
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Smoking
4
Equipment and vehicle use
1
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
5 workings within 5 miles of Fort Herkimer Church: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
East Herkimer, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 flood.
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.
Numerous roads were washed out and closed as a result of flash flooding in the city of Herkimer. Some residences were impacted by flood waters. A state of emergency was declared for the city of Herkimer. Some water rescues and evacuations took place as well.
As a result of thunderstorm heavy rains, emergency management in Herkimer County reported a mudslide occurred on Route 28 between Herkimer and Middleville. The route needed to be temporarily closed.
Major flooding occurred on the Mohawk River at Little Falls and upstream at Utica. The Little Falls river gage located on left bank 1,800 feet downstream from Fivemile Dam, 2.0 miles upstream from East Canada Creek, and 4.5 miles southeast of city of Little Falls exceeded its 15 foot flood stage at 9:07 pm EST September 7th, its 17 foot moderate flood stage at 12:42 am September 8th, its 18 foot major flood stage at 3 am, it crested at 18.20 feet at 4:30 am, and dropped below flood stage at 4:08 pm September 8th. At a level of 16 feet water reaches roads in the Industrial Park and at 18.5 feet the Fonda Motor Speedway floods. The Utica river gage located near Lee Street West exceeded its 403 foot flood stage around midnight EST September 8th, its 405 foot moderate flood stage around 6 am, its 407 foot major flood stage around 12:30 pm, it crested at 408 feet around 9 pm September 8th, and it finally dropped below flood stage around 7:30 pm September 11th.
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.
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.
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