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Photograph of First Presbyterian Church
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church at Church St. in Valatie, Columbia County, New York. It was built in 1878 and is a one-story, rectangular building built of face brick with limestone trim in the High Victorian Gothic style.”

Wikipedia article First Presbyterian Church (Valatie, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Church St., Valatie, 12184
  • When was it listed? September 1979
  • Category. building
  • Town. Kinderhook town
  • National Register reference number. 79001574 - 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 204 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined45
Debris and open burning30
Arson/incendiarism21
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valatie, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindValatie$15,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindValatie$10,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindValatie$4,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindValatie-A local emergency manager reported numerous downed trees around the Kinderhook and Valatie areas, concentrated in the Hemlock Street and Maple Lane South vicinity.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindValatie-Wires were downed along U.S. Route 9 near Harris Drive in the Town of Kinderhook.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindValatie-A tree and wires were downed on Hemlock Street in the Town of Kinderhook.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindValatie-Tree and wire damage was reported along Marion Boulevard in the Village of Valatie.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindValatie-Multiple trees were reported down around the Village of Valatie.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindValatie-Multiple trees were reported down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindValatie-Trees and wires were downed onto Old Post Road and Route 9H.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindValatie-A tree was downed on Route 203 and Fairway Drive.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindValatie-Several reports of trees down in Valatie.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindValatie-A tree and wires were downed onto a vehicle.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindValatie-A tree, wires and pole were downed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindValatie-A tree was downed across a road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindValatie-Trees and wires were reported down on Kinderhook Street in the village of Valatie as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindValatie-Trees were downed at 180 Maple Lane in the town of Kinderhook as a result of thunderstorm winds.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindValatie-A tree and wires were reported down in Valatie due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindValatie-Trees were reported down on Pinot Ranch Road in Valatie due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2013HailValatie-A member of the public reported hail of 2.00 inches in diameter fell from a thunderstorm in Valatie.
May 2011HailValatie-Penny size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Valatie.
June 2009HailValatie-Nickel size hail was reported in Valatie during a thunderstorm.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindValatie-Trees were reported down in Valatie as a result of strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2007HailValatie-Quarter size hail was reported in Valatie during a thunderstorm.

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

11 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
Nathan Wild House0.2 miles1991
Wild's Mill Complex0.3 miles1982
Crow Hill1.9 miles1997
Persons of Color Cemetery at Kinderhook2.0 miles2016
Kinderhook Village District2.1 miles1974
Luycas Van Alen House2.5 miles1967

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79001574 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia CountyAll 155 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.
  • 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.