Rectory of St. George's Episcopal Church

Built in 1793. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1793.

Sources: 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. 217 Peninsula Blvd., Hempstead, 11550
When was it listed? May 1988
Category. building
Town. Hempstead town
When was it built? 1793
National Register reference number. 88000510 - 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

1897 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Rectory of St. George's Episcopal Church, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Rectory of St. George's Episcopal Church, surveyed 1897

Fires near this property

1,486 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,486 fires within 5 miles of Rectory of St. George's Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 610 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 168 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	897
Smoking	174
Arson/incendiarism	168
Natural	61
Equipment and vehicle use	60
Power generation/transmission/distribution	59
Debris and open burning	23
Recreation and ceremony	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hempstead, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning. 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
August 2011	Flash Flood	Hempstead	$100,000	Extensive flood damage was reported at the One Offering Tabernacle of God Church on Clinton St. in Hempstead. The church's organ, van, printers, furniture, religious artifacts, robes and several computers were destroyed. Several other vehicles in the church's parking lot were also damaged by flood waters. Numerous residents of Lido Beach, Long Beach and E. Atlantic Beach also sustained damage from flood waters entering their homes. National Blvd. was underwater, while Loop Pkwy. and portions of Lido Blvd. were closed due to flooding. Property damage amounts are estimated.
August 2018	Lightning	Hempstead	$6,000	Lightning struck Prospect Elmementary School causing fire.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	South Hempstead	$5,000	Numerous trees were downed.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	South Hempstead	$1,000	One tree was reported down in Rockville Centre.
September 2023	Flash Flood	South Hempstead	-	Motorist Stranded in flood waters on N Centre Ave. Fire department responding for water rescue.
September 2023	Flash Flood	South Hempstead	-	Public report from mPing of vehicle stranded in flood waters.
July 2009	Flash Flood	South Hempstead	-	Long Beach Rd. was closed due to flooding.
August 2011	Hail	Hempstead	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Hempstead	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	West Hempstead	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hempstead	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1897 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1947 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Freeport 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
Hempstead Town hall	under 500 feet	2018
St. George's Church	0.1 miles	1973
US Post Office-Hempstead	0.4 miles	1988
US Post Office-Garden City	1.5 miles	1989
A. T. Stewart Era Buildings	1.6 miles	1978
Mitchel Air Base and Flight Line	1.9 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000510 in Record Group 79.
Nassau County	All 156 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.
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.