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St. Francis DeSales Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Francis DeSales Church is a historic Roman Catholic church on Church Street in Lexington, Greene County, New York. It was completed in 1895 and is a one-story, four by one bay light frame structure on a stone and concrete foundation.”
Wikipedia article St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church (Lexington, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Church St., Lexington, 12452
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. building
Town. Lexington town
National Register reference number. 99001485 - 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

47 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of St. Francis DeSales Church between 1997 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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	19
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
14 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 June 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexington, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1996	Lightning	Lexington	$60,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$1,000	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$500	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Lexington as a result of thunderstorm winds.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Lexington due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2011	Flood	Lexington	-	Flooding occurred on the Schoharie Creek at Prattsville. The Prattsville river gage located on left bank 100 feet upstream from bridge on Route 23 in Prattsville, 0.2 miles upstream from Schoharie Reservoir, 0.2 miles downstream from Huntersfield Creek, and 1.6 miles downstream from Batavia Kill exceeded its 12 foot flood stage at 6:25 am EST September 7th, it crested at 13.71 feet at 10 am (moderate flood stage is 14 feet), and dropped below flood stage at 2:16 pm September 7th.
August 2011	Flash Flood	Lexington	-	Catastrophic flooding occurred in Prattsville along the Schoharie Creek. Officials estimated that over 50 percent of the buildings were severely damaged or destroyed. The Prattsville river gage located on the left bank 100 feet upstream from the bridge on State Highway 23 in Prattsville, 0.2 miles upstream from the Schoharie Reservoir, exceeded its 12 foot flood stage at 6:02 am EST on August 28th, its 14 foot moderate flood stage at 6:36 am, its 16 foot major flood stage at 7:17 am and dropped below flood stage at 7:31 pm August 29th. The crest time and reading are unknown, since the gage was lost in the flood. At a level of 18 feet, 2 to 3 feet of water inundates properties in the Village of Prattsville along the creek.\|\|Route 23A from Route 296 to Route 23 was reopened on November 1st. The Route 23 bridge over the Schoharie Creek in Prattsville was reopened on November 4th.\|\|Initially started out as flash flooding then transitioned to river flooding.
August 2011	Flood	Lexington	-	Catastrophic flooding occurred in Prattsville along the Schoharie Creek. Officials estimated that over 50 percent of the buildings were severely damaged or destroyed. The Prattsville river gage located on the left bank 100 feet upstream from the bridge on State Highway 23 in Prattsville, 0.2 miles upstream from the Schoharie Reservoir, exceeded its 12 foot flood stage at 6:02 am EST on August 28th, its 14 foot moderate flood stage at 6:36 am, its 16 foot major flood stage at 7:17 am and dropped below flood stage at 7:31 pm August 29th. The crest time and reading are unknown, since the gage was lost in the flood. At a level of 18 feet, 2 to 3 feet of water inundates properties in the Village of Prattsville along the creek.\|\|Route 23A from Route 296 to Route 23 was reopened on November 1st. The Route 23 bridge over the Schoharie Creek in Prattsville was reopened on November 4th.\|\|Initially started out as flash flooding then transitioned to river flooding.
August 2011	Flood	Lexington	-	Route 42 was closed due to flooding between Route 23A in the Town of Lexington and Route 28 in Shandaken.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Lexington due to strong thunderstorm winds.
February 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	-	A tree was blown down in Lexington during a thunderstorm.
September 2004	Flash Flood	Lexington	-	State Route 42 near Spruceton Road flooded and closed.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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.

1900 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1946 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
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
Lexington House	0.3 miles	1986
Jewett Presbyterian Church Complex	3.6 miles	2001
Elijah Strong House	4.6 miles	2003
Morss Homestead/Federal City Homestead	5.2 miles	1983
Trinity Episcopal Church	5.2 miles	1996
Pratt Rock Park	5.6 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001485 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 101 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.