St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic Evangelical Lutheran church in Liberty, Sullivan County, New York. It was built in 1908 and is a modest Late Gothic Revival style building.”
Wikipedia article St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Liberty, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1997 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 24 Chestnut St., Liberty, 12754
When was it listed? August 1997
Category. building
Town. Liberty town
National Register reference number. 97000845 - 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

164 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church between 1997 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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	93
Arson/incendiarism	22
Debris and open burning	21
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	5
Other causes	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2014	Smoking	2.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2006	Flash Flood	Liberty	$25,000	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Liberty	$10,000	A thunderstorm moved into the area Monday afternoon and quickly became severe. The thunderstorm knocked trees and wires down from Roscoe to Liberty to Monticello.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Liberty	$7,000	no account filed
July 2008	Flash Flood	Liberty	$5,000	A spotter reported 2.14 inches of rain in 24 hours ending at 7 a.m., then another 2 inches from 7 a.m. to 930 a.m. Parts of a roadway were washed away below this location.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Liberty	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and wires in Liberty and Harris.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Liberty	$3,000	Trees and wires were blown down.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Liberty	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires near the intersection of Buckley Street and West Street.
May 2018	Funnel Cloud	Liberty	-	Spotter reported a funnel cloud and pea sized hail.
July 2009	Heavy Rain	Liberty	-	One hour rainfall measured 1.12 inches.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Liberty	-	Trees down.
June 1995	Hail	Liberty	-	An isolated severe thunderstorm dumped hail up to three-quarters inch in Liberty during the afternoon of June 14th.
June 2011	Hail	Liberty	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Liberty	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Liberty	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Liberty	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Liberty	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Liberty	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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.

1910 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1942 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Liberty East quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello 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
Town and Country Building	under 500 feet	2004
Liberty Downtown Historic District	0.1 miles	2006
Liberty Village Historic District	0.2 miles	1978
Munson Diner	0.2 miles	2006
Shelburne Playhouse	1.6 miles	2004
Ferndale School	1.6 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000845 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan County	All 79 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.