Built in 1857. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
From the record
“Olive and Hurley Old School Baptist Church is an historic Baptist meeting house on NY Route 28, at the junction with Ulster County Route 30 in Shokan, New York. It was built in 1857 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”
Wikipedia article Olive and Hurley Old School Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1857.
National Register reference number.98001392- 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
153 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Olive and Hurley Old School Baptist Church
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 25 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
78
Arson/incendiarism
25
Debris and open burning
12
Smoking
11
Recreation and ceremony
7
Natural
7
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Olive and Hurley Old School Baptist Church: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Shokan, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning.
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.
A man was swept into the Bushkill Creek in Olive. The Bushkill Creek overtopped a temporary footbridge that connects Watson Hollow Road to a Private Road 3 in Olive. The private bridge was washed out by Tropical Storm Irene. While trying to cross the creek, he was swept off the bridge and sent about 150 yards downstream. The man managed to climb out of the flood waters on his own, however the Olive and Woodstock fire departments evacuated him, his wife and neighbors after seeing the condition of the creek.
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.
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.
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.
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