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Photograph of Blooming Grove United Church of Christ
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Blooming Grove Church

Built in 1824 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Blooming Grove United Church of Christ, also known just as Blooming Grove Church and formerly known as The Congregational Church of Blooming Grove, is located at the junction of Old Dominion Road and NY 94 in the town of Blooming Grove, between the villages of Chester and Washingtonville in Orange County, New York, United States. It is a plain white Federal style building, notable for lacking the steeple or cupola commonly found on churches.”

Wikipedia article Blooming Grove United Church of Christ, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1824, Federal architecture.

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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. W side of NY 94, jct. with Old Dominion Rd., Blooming Grove, 10914
  • When was it listed? December 1996
  • Category. building
  • Town. Blooming Grove town
  • When was it built? 1824
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 96001434 - 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

1,012 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,012 fires within 5 miles of Blooming Grove Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 798 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 118 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/undetermined385
Debris and open burning333
Arson/incendiarism118
Misuse of fire by a minor53
Smoking34
Equipment and vehicle use33
Natural22
Fireworks15
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Blooming Grove Church: 3 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Blooming Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bull MineIronPast Producer
Bull MineIronPast ProducerMagnetite
Ranier Hill ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blooming Grove, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2017: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2010LightningBlooming Grove1 hurtA 19 year old female was struck by lightning on Heard Road in Blooming Grove.
June 2017HailBlooming Grove-Nickel size hail was reported from south of Blooming Grove to Monroe.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBlooming Grove-A downed tree caused the closure of Farmingdale Road.
June 2014HailBlooming Grove-Quarter size hail was reported in South Blooming Grove.
July 2011HailBlooming Grove-Half dollar size hail was reported in Blooming Grove.
July 2011HailBlooming Grove-Quarter size hail was reported in Blooming Grove.
March 2010FloodBlooming Grove-Moodna Creek and other small streams exceeding bankfull in Washingtonville caused numerous houses to be inundated with water.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBlooming Grove-Local police reported several trees and power lines down due to severe thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

11 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
Moffat Library2.3 miles1994
Brotherhood Winery2.7 miles2000
Bull Stone House3.9 miles1974
Jacob & Caroline Hawkins House4.8 miles2019
Rest Haven5.2 miles2017
First Presbyterian Church of Chester5.2 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96001434 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange CountyAll 187 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.