St. Paul's Episcopal Church Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Paul's Episcopal Church Complex is a historic church on Rider Avenue at the intersection of Terry Street in Patchogue, New York. Though the official address is listed as being at 31 Rider Avenue, the actual church is located between two houses owned by the church, the southernmost of which is actually located at 31 Rider Avenue.”
Wikipedia article St. Paul's Episcopal Church Complex (Patchogue, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1995 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. 31 Rider Ave., Patchogue, 11772
When was it listed? June 1995
Category. building
Town. Brookhaven town
National Register reference number. 95000722 - 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

1,569 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,569 fires within 5 miles of St. Paul's Episcopal Church Complex between 2000 and 2020, burning about 804 acres in total. 57 started naturally. 222 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	1160
Arson/incendiarism	222
Natural	57
Smoking	40
Debris and open burning	29
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Recreation and ceremony	7
Fireworks	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patchogue, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Patchogue	$4,000	Trees snapped and uprooted on Ocean Avenue.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Patchogue	$2,000	Several large tree limbs were reported down in Southern Patchogue between Cedar and West Avenues to the east and west, and Amity and Laurel Streets north and south.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Patchogue	$1,000	Suffolk County PD report a fallen tree.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	North Patchogue	$1,000	Power lines were reported down on Mulford Street in North Patchogue.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Patchogue	$900	Downed wires were reported in Patchogue.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Patchogue	$750	Large tree limbs were reported down on Cedar Avenue in Patchogue.
September 2016	Flash Flood	Patchogue	-	Flooding closed the intersection of Carman Street and Bay Avenue in Patchogue.
August 2011	Hail	Patchogue	-	Quarter size hail was reported along Cedar Avenue in Patchogue.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Patchogue	-	Significant street flooding was reported.
July 2008	Hail	Patchogue	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	East Patchogue	-	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Patchogue	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Suffolk 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.

1902 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1904 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1919 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Patchogue quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Patchogue quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Patchogue quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West 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
US Post Office-Patchogue	0.1 miles	1989
Congregational Church of Patchogue	0.2 miles	1993
Union Savings Bank	0.3 miles	2010
United Methodist Church	0.5 miles	1984
Swan River Schoolhouse	1.0 miles	2017
Smith-Rourke House	1.6 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000722 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk County	All 338 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.