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Photograph of Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, Upstate New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia

Built in 1788. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia, also known as Stone Arabia Reformed Church, is a historic Dutch Reformed church located near Nelliston in Stone Arabia, Montgomery County, New York. It was built in 1788 and is a simple rectangular building constructed of cut limestone blocks.”

Wikipedia article Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1788.

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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. E of Nelliston on NY 10, Nelliston, 13428
  • When was it listed? September 1977
  • Category. building
  • Town. Palatine town
  • When was it built? 1788
  • National Register reference number. 77000951 - 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

92 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia between 2001 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined46
Arson/incendiarism22
Natural13
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
18 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Garnet, Quartz. 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
Spraker's Basin DepositGarnet, QuartzOccurrence
Sheldon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weaver's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this property

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nelliston, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2014FloodNelliston-A mudslide occurred near the intersection of Happy Hollow Road and Old Fort Plain Road due to recent heavy rainfall from slow moving thunderstorms.
July 2009HailNelliston-Golf ball size hail was reported at Lock 15 of the Erie Canal during a thunderstorm.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindNelliston-no account filed

Every storm 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.

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
Trinity Lutheran Church and Cemetery0.3 miles2005
Palatine Bridge Historic District2.2 miles2019
Caspar Getman Farmstead2.3 miles2010
Webster Wagner House2.3 miles1973
Palatine Bridge Freight House2.3 miles1973
US Post Office-Canajoharie2.5 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000951 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery CountyAll 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.
  • 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.