Bloomingburg Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The former Bloomingburg Reformed Protestant Dutch Church is located on Main Street in Bloomingburg, New York, United States. An ornate wooden Federal style building dating to 1821, it is one of the oldest churches in the county.”
Wikipedia article Bloomingburg Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 17M, Bloomingburg, 12721
When was it listed? January 1980
Category. building
Town. Mamakating town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 80002779 - 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

264 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Bloomingburg Reformed Protestant Dutch Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,269 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 60 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	110
Arson/incendiarism	60
Debris and open burning	31
Smoking	22
Natural	14
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Bloomingburg Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: 5 producers, 5 past producers, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Irving Jones Prospect	Zinc, Lead	Prospect
Shawangunk Mine	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	Vein
Shawangunk Mine	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Benson's Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bloomingburg Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bloomingburg Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bloomingburg Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Phillipsort Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Phillipsort Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wallkill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomingburg, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2023	Flash Flood	Bloomingburg	$20,000	Flood waters are spreading into the first floor of a house.
September 2011	Flood	Bloomingburg	$10,000	Several basements were flooded.
March 2005	Flash Flood	Bloomingburg	$10,000	no account filed
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomingburg	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree on a propane tank.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomingburg	$4,600	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down power poles.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomingburg	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomingburg	$2,500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
March 2008	Flood	Bloomingburg	-	Major streets and highways were flooded.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomingburg	-	Large branches were broken off trees.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomingburg	-	Large branches were broken off trees.

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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.

1904 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1943 USGS Wurtsboro quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Wurtsboro quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS Wurtsboro quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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
Masten-Quinn House	2.5 miles	2003
Reformed Dutch Church of Mamakating	2.6 miles	2022
Hart House	3.9 miles	2006
Mamakating Park Historic District	6.2 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002779 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan County	All 79 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.