New Lots Reformed Church and Cemetery

Built in 1824. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“New Lots Reformed Church and Cemetery is a historic Dutch Reformed church and cemetery at 630 New Lots Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, New York. It was built in 1823-1824 and is a small, rectangular wood-frame building sheathed in clapboard.”
Wikipedia article New Lots Reformed Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 207 National Register listings published here for Kings County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1824.

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. 630 New Lots Ave., New York, 11207
When was it listed? May 1983
Category. building
Borough. Brooklyn
When was it built? 1824
National Register reference number. 83001696 - 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.

Then and now

1889 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering New Lots Reformed Church and Cemetery, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering New Lots Reformed Church and Cemetery, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

2,747 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,747 fires within 5 miles of New Lots Reformed Church and Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,618 acres in total. 150 started naturally. 180 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	2028
Arson/incendiarism	180
Natural	150
Smoking	121
Debris and open burning	76
Misuse of fire by a minor	76
Equipment and vehicle use	68
Recreation and ceremony	32
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Fireworks	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	1

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	NA
9 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Gateway National Recreation Area	FOUNTAIN1
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Gateway National Recreation Area	CREEK19
8 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Kings 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 New Lots Reformed Church and Cemetery: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Iron. 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
D Smith Steel/ Brooklyn, N.Y.	Iron	Unknown
N L Industries/ Brooklyn. N.Y.	Lead	Unknown
Roosevelt Metal/ Brooklyn, N.Y.	Lead	Unknown

Every working recorded in Kings County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1889 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1891 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1898 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1947 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1995 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000

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
Boulevard Houses	0.4 miles	2022
Fiorentino Plaza	0.7 miles	2022
75th Police Precinct Station House	0.8 miles	2007
Talmud Torah Atereth Israel	1.0 miles	2024
Substation #401	1.1 miles	2005
English Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Reformation	1.1 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001696 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kings County	All 207 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.