Livingston Memorial Church and Burial Ground

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Livingston Memorial Church and Burial Ground is a historic Dutch Reformed church at CR 10 & Wire Road in Linlithgo, Columbia County, New York. It was built in 1870 on the site of the original 1721 church and above the Livingston family burial crypt established in 1727.”
Wikipedia article Livingston Memorial Church and Burial Ground, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1985 · 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 39 objectss, 2 sitess, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. CR 10 & Wire Rd., Linlithgo, 12526
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Town. Livingston town
National Register reference number. 85002271 - 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 Livingston Memorial Church and Burial Ground between 1992 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 10 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	60
Debris and open burning	27
Natural	12
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Livingston Memorial Church and Burial Ground: 23 past producers, 18 producers, 1 occurrence. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Diamond Hill Deposit	Quartz	Occurrence
Paul Blum Cementon Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
North Catskill Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
North Catskill Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
F.H. Stickles & Son S & G Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
F.H. Stickles & Son S & G Pit & Mil	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Fabiano Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kearny Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Alsen Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Alsen Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linlithgo, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Linlithgo	-	A tree was reported down on power lines along White Birch Road in the town of Livingston.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Linlithgo	-	Wires were downed on County Route 31.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Linlithgo	-	A tree was downed in a road.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Linlithgo	-	A tree was reported down across County Route 31 in the town of Livingston due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Linlithgo	-	A tree and wires were reported down on County Route 10 near Wire Road in the town of Livingston due to thunderstorm winds.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Linlithgo	-	Trees and wires were reported down on Linlitho Station Road off Station Hill Road in the town of Livingston.

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1895 USGS Catskill quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1934 USGS Catskill quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1938 USGS Catskill quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1941 USGS Catskill quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Hudson South quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1980 USGS Hudson South quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
Teviotdale	1.2 miles	1979
Oak Hill	2.0 miles	1979
German Reformed Sanctity Church Parsonage	2.7 miles	1976
Simeon Rockefeller House	2.8 miles	2009
Dick House	3.0 miles	2009
Barringer-Overbaugh-Lasher House	3.1 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002271 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia County	All 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.
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.