South Fallsburg Hebrew Association Synagogue

Built in 1902. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

“The South Fallsburg Hebrew Association Synagogue is a historic Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Lake Street in the hamlet of South Fallsburg, New York, in the United States.”
Wikipedia article South Fallsburg Hebrew Association Synagogue, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1902.

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. North St., South Fallsburg, 12779
When was it listed? November 2000
Category. building
Town. Fallsburg town
When was it built? 1902
National Register reference number. 00001410 - 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

208 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of South Fallsburg Hebrew Association Synagogue between 1992 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 19 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	60
Smoking	60
Arson/incendiarism	19
Natural	16
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Other causes	5

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 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2014	Smoking	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
10 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of South Fallsburg Hebrew Association Synagogue: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Goodwin Sand and Gravel, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Maston Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Maston Lake Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Monticello Black Top Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1909 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500
1911 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Monticello 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
Rivoli Theatre	0.7 miles	2001
Ohave Shalom Synagogue	3.0 miles	2000
Glen Wild Methodist Church	3.6 miles	1984
Center Theatre	3.8 miles	2001
Woodbourne Reformed Church Complex	4.1 miles	2003
Silver Lake Dam	4.1 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001410 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan County	All 79 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.