Photograph of Former Wayside Chapel — Photograph by User:Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wayside Chapel, Former

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Former Wayside Chapel is a historic chapel at 24 River Road in Grand View-on-Hudson, Rockland County, New York. The Flemish Revival building was constructed in 1867-1869 and is a simple, rectangular building measuring 26 by 40 feet.”
Wikipedia article Former Wayside Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 2000 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 24 River Rd., Grand View-On-Hudson, 10960
When was it listed? April 2000
Category. building
Town. Orangetown town
National Register reference number. 00000346 - 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

1,098 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,098 fires within 5 miles of Wayside Chapel, Former between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,163 acres in total. 81 started naturally. 68 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	671
Smoking	161
Natural	81
Arson/incendiarism	68
Recreation and ceremony	48
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Debris and open burning	26
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Other causes	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
9 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Wayside Chapel, Former: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Molybdenum, Rhenium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dobbs Ferry Plant	Molybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, Tantalum	Producer
Sparta Copper Deposit	Copper, Lead	Occurrence
Sparkill Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Sparkill Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
West Nyack Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
West Nyack Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this property

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand View-On-Hudson, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2011: 1 tornado, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2011	Flood	Grand View On Hudson	-	The New York State Thruway (I-87/287) was closed from the Tappan Zee Bridge to the Rockland/Orange County line.\|\|Storm total rainfall amounts included 7.52 inches at Tappan, 8.70 inches at Thiells, and 9.22 inches at Hillburn.
July 2006	Tornado (F1)	Grand View On Hudson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockland County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1937 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:31680
1943 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Carson McCullers House	0.9 miles	2006
Ross-Hand Mansion	0.9 miles	1983
St. Paul's United Methodist Church	1.0 miles	2001
US Post Office-Nyack	1.1 miles	1989
Tappan Zee Playhouse	1.2 miles	1983
John Green House	1.2 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000346 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rockland County	All 93 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.