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Photograph of Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue

Built in 1917. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

“The Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 6 Spring Glen Road, in the hamlet of Mountaindale, Sullivan County, in the Catskills region of New York, in the United States. The small stucco building was built in 1917 and expanded slightly in the 1930s.”

Wikipedia article Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1917.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 55, Mountaindale, 12763
  • When was it listed? May 2001
  • Category. building
  • Town. Fallsburg town
  • When was it built? 1917
  • National Register reference number. 01000578 - 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

97 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue between 2002 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2012Natural4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2010Misuse of fire by a minor2.7 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Goodwin Sand and Gravel, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maston Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maston Lake PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Silver Lake Dam1.4 miles2000
Ohave Shalom Synagogue2.7 miles2000
Glen Wild Methodist Church3.4 miles1984
Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue4.0 miles1999
Mamakating Park Historic District5.2 miles1998
South Fallsburg Hebrew Association Synagogue5.3 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000578 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan CountyAll 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.