Built in 1766. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“Peter's Church and Old Van Cortlandtville Cemetery, also known as St. Peter's Church and Old Cemetery of Cortlandt is a historic Episcopal church and churchyard at Oregon Road and Locust Avenue in Van Cortlandtville - a historic neighborhood of the town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York.”
Wikipedia article Old St. Peter's Church (Van Cortlandtville, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1766.
National Register reference number.73001292- 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
424 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 424 fires within 5 miles of Old St. Peter's Church
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 448 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 50 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
255
Arson/incendiarism
50
Smoking
29
Natural
26
Debris and open burning
23
Equipment and vehicle use
20
Power generation/transmission/distribution
11
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Recreation and ceremony
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
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
28 workings within 5 miles of Old St. Peter's Church: 16 past producers, 5 occurrences, 4 producers, 2 prospects.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Iron, Iron, Sulfur, Sulfur. 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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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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