Palatine Church

Built in 1770. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Palatine Church, also known as Palatine Evangelical Lutheran Church, is a historic Evangelical Lutheran church on Mohawk Turnpike in Palatine, Montgomery County, New York. It was built in 1770 and is a small, rectangular, one story structure with massive stone walls.”
Wikipedia article Palatine Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1770.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Mohawk Tpke., Palatine, 13339
When was it listed? January 1973
Category. building
Town. Palatine town
When was it built? 1770
National Register reference number. 73001209 - 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

86 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Palatine Church between 2001 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 25 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	34
Arson/incendiarism	25
Debris and open burning	10
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 September 2020	Natural	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
23 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Palatine Church: 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
	Sheldon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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.

1898 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1944 USGS Fort Plain quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Fort Plain quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Fort Klock	1.6 miles	1972
Walrath-Van Horne House	2.0 miles	1980
Nellis Tavern	2.3 miles	1990
Waterman-Gramps House	2.4 miles	1980
Lasher-Davis House	2.4 miles	1980
Nelliston School	2.4 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001209 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 62 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.