First Baptist Church of Cold Spring

Built in 1832. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Church on the Hill is located just outside that village on Main Street in Nelsonville, New York, United States. It is the oldest church in the town of Philipstown, which includes both villages, and has been in use continually since its 1831 construction.”
Wikipedia article First Baptist Church of Cold Spring (Nelsonville, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Putnam County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1832.

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. Main St., Nelsonville, 10516
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Hudson Highlands MRA
Town. Philipstown town
When was it built? 1832
National Register reference number. 82001241 - 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

323 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of First Baptist Church of Cold Spring between 1994 and 2020, burning about 859 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 39 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	172
Arson/incendiarism	39
Natural	37
Debris and open burning	19
Smoking	18
Recreation and ceremony	16
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of First Baptist Church of Cold Spring: 34 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Titanium, Metal. 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
Bog Meadow Pond Deposit	Zirconium	Occurrence
Constitution Island Occurrence	Molybdenum	Occurrence
Denny Mine	Titanium, Iron	Prospect
Hustis Quarry	Titanium	Occurrence
Probably Serpentine Marble Rock Quarry No. Hk-022	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Marble
Clay Pit No. Hk-020	Clay	Past Producer	Clay
Clay Pit No. Hk-020	Clay	Past Producer
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019	Graphite	Past Producer	Graphite
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019	Graphite	Past Producer
Canopus Mine	Iron, Titanium	Past Producer	1912

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this property

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nelsonville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash 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
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Nelsonville	$5,000	Numerous trees and power lines were reported down in Fishkill.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Nelsonville	$3,000	Police Department reports wires down near Maple Terrace and Ceder Street.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Nelsonville	$3,000	Three trees were down at the intersection of State route 301 and Glynwood Road in Fahnestock State Park.
December 2023	Flash Flood	Nelsonville	-	Flooding on NY 9D both directions near Fair Street. All lanes closed.
June 2011	Hail	Nelsonville	-	Penny-size hail was reported in Cold Springs.

Every storm recorded in Putnam County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

1892 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:48000
1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
House at 249 Main Street	under 500 feet	1989
J. Y. Dykman Store	under 500 feet	1982
House at 3 Crown Street	under 500 feet	1982
Fish and Fur Club	under 500 feet	1982
Grove, The	0.2 miles	2008
Champlin, H. D., & Son Horseshoeing and Wagonmaking	0.2 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82001241 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Putnam County	All 49 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.