Built in 1792. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.
From the record
“The Primitive Baptist Church of Brookfield, also known as the Old School Baptist Meeting House, is located along US 6 in Slate Hill, New York, United States, a hamlet of the Town of Wawayanda in Orange County. It was built in 1792, when the settlement was known as Brookfield.”
Wikipedia article Primitive Baptist Church of Brookfield, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1792.
National Register reference number.76001260- 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
370 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 370 fires within 5 miles of Primitive Baptist Church of Brookfield
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 250 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 33 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
270
Arson/incendiarism
33
Natural
25
Debris and open burning
13
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Smoking
8
Recreation and ceremony
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
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 Primitive Baptist Church of Brookfield: 3 past producers, 2 producers.
2 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Slate Hill, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.
Emergency Services reported flooding in Gardnerville due to 6-12 inches of running water over County Route 12 at Gardnerville Road. The road was briefly impassable.
In Washingtonville, Rt. 208 was closed south of Rt. 94 due to flooding. NY State Rt. 211 was closed in both directions between Kaisertown Rd. and Rt. 416 in Montgomery and US 6 was closed in both directions at highway 284 in Slate Hill also due to flooding.
As a severe thunderstorm moved from Northern New Jersey into Orange County, New York, it produced damaging winds that knocked numerous wires down, resulting in the loss of power for portions of Slate Hill.
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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