Old School Baptist Church of Halcottsville

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Old School Baptist Church of Halcottsville is a historic Baptist church building on Old NY 30 in Halcottsville, Delaware County, New York. It is a one-story, wood-frame building constructed in 1886 by Eld.”
Wikipedia article Old School Baptist Church of Halcottsville, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Old NY 30, Halcottsville, 12438
When was it listed? July 1999
Category. building
Town. Middletown town
National Register reference number. 99000809 - 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Old School Baptist Church of Halcottsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 4 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	22
Debris and open burning	22
Natural	10
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2

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
26 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
14 July 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
8 June 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
21 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

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 Old School Baptist Church of Halcottsville: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halcottsville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 hail. 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
December 2006	Hail	Halcottsville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1901 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1945 USGS Fleischmanns quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1946 USGS Fleischmanns quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
Kelly Round Barn	0.5 miles	1984
Hubbell Family Farm and Kelly's Corners Cemetery	1.2 miles	2001
Walter Stratton House	3.5 miles	2002
Maxbilt Theatre	3.5 miles	2014
Second Old School Baptist Church of Roxbury	4.0 miles	1999
New Kingston Historic District	4.2 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000809 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware County	All 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.