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St. Peter's Episcopal Church Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Peter's Episcopal Church Complex is a historic Episcopal church complex at the junction of Pine and Church Streets in Hobart, Delaware County, New York. It sits on top of Pine Hill, the highest point in the village.”

Wikipedia article St. Peter's Episcopal Church Complex (Hobart, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 1998 · 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

  • Address. Jct. of Pine and Church Sts., Hobart, 13788
  • When was it listed? July 1998
  • Category. building
  • Town. Stamford town
  • National Register reference number. 98000948 - 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

50 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of St. Peter's Episcopal Church Complex between 1999 and 2019, burning about 105 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined24
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 June 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Peter's Episcopal Church Complex: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Town of Harpersfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hobart, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHobart$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHobart$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
June 2025Flash FloodHobart$2,000Water was flowing across the roads.

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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
Hobart Masonic Hall0.2 miles2001
Churchill Park Historic District3.8 miles1980
Erskine L. Seeley House4.0 miles2010
Burns Family Farm4.9 miles2007
McArthur-Martin Hexadecagon Barn5.6 miles1984
McNaught Family Farm6.0 miles2019

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000948 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware CountyAll 78 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.