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Photograph of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Parsonage and Cemetery
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St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Parsonage and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Paul's Lutheran Church, Parsonage and Cemetery is a historic Lutheran church, parsonage, and cemetery in Wurtemberg in Dutchess County, New York.”

Wikipedia article St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Wurtemburg, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 1987 · 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 4 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Wurtemburg Rd., Wurtemburg, 12572
  • When was it listed? July 1987
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Rhinebeck Town MRA
  • Town. Rhinebeck town
  • National Register reference number. 87001083 - 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

1898 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Parsonage and Cemetery, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet covering St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Parsonage and Cemetery, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

167 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Parsonage and Cemetery between 1997 and 2020, burning about 161 acres in total. 11 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/undetermined76
Arson/incendiarism39
Debris and open burning20
Natural11
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
9 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Parsonage and Cemetery: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Morris BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this property

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wurtemburg, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWurtemburg-Trees and wires were reported down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWurtemburg-Trees and wires were reported down.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindWurtemburg-A tree was downed on wires along the southbound lane of Route 9G at Slate Quarry Road.
September 2018Flash FloodWurtemburg-New York Route 9G was closed in the vicinity of Primrose Hill Road due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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.

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
Pultz Farmhouse0.3 miles1987
John H. Traver Farm0.3 miles1987
Marquardt Farm0.9 miles1987
Progue House0.9 miles1987
Slate Quarry Road Dutch Barn1.1 miles1987
Strawberry Hill1.2 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001083 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dutchess CountyAll 266 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.