Ulster Heights Synagogue

Built in 1924. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Ulster Heights Synagogue, formally known as Congregation Knesset Israel of Ulster Heights, is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at the corner of Beaver Dam and Ulster Heights roads in the Ulster Heights section of the town of Wawarsing, in the Catskill region of New York, in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Ulster Heights Synagogue, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1924.

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. Ulter Heights Rd and Beaver Dam Rd., Ulster Heights, 12428
When was it listed? February 2001
Category. building
Town. Wawarsing town
When was it built? 1924
National Register reference number. 01000045 - 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

108 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Ulster Heights Synagogue between 2000 and 2020, burning about 170 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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	61
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
24 September 2014	Smoking	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
10 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.7 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Every fire recorded in Ulster 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.

1910 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1942 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Neversink 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 Grahamsville quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Grahamsville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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
Ellenville Downtown Historic District	7.6 miles	2012
US Post Office-Ellenville	7.7 miles	1988
Christ Lutheran Church and Parsonage	7.8 miles	2010
Hoornbeek Store Complex	7.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000045 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 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.