Church of the Good Shepherd

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Church of the Good Shepherd is a historic Episcopal, rural family chapel at Cullen in Herkimer County, New York. It was built in 1892 and consists of a rectangular nave with gable ends and a separate square tower connected by a hyphen.”
Wikipedia article Church of the Good Shepherd (Cullen, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 167, jct. of NY 167 and Earl St., Cullen, 13439
When was it listed? August 1997
Category. building
Town. Warren town
National Register reference number. 97000943 - 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

44 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Church of the Good Shepherd between 1999 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	17
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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
3 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 1999	Smoking	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
15 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Church of the Good Shepherd: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Jordanville Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Jordanville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this property

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cullen, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Cullen	-	A roof was reported to have been blown off a home in the town of Warren off due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Cullen	-	Wires were downed and across a road in the town of Warren due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2008	Hail	Cullen	-	Golf ball size hail was reported near Cullen during a thunderstorm.
June 2008	Hail	Cullen	-	Quarter size hail was reported approximately 3 miles south southwest of Jordanville during a thunderstorm.

Every storm recorded in Herkimer County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1903 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Jordanville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1945 USGS Jordanville quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

5 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
Sunset Hill	1.9 miles	2007
Blatchley House	2.2 miles	2008
Jordanville Public Library	2.4 miles	1984
Holy Trinity Monastery	3.4 miles	2011
Case, James H., III and Laura Rockefeller Case, House	7.1 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000943 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Herkimer County	All 74 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.