Williamsburg Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Williamsburg Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Hampton Corners in Livingston County, New York. It was established in 1792 and is one of the earliest European American settlement period cemeteries in Western New York and is the last surviving above ground remnant of the now vanished village of Williamsburg.”
Wikipedia article Williamsburg Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 2002 · category: Site.

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 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Abel Rd., Hampton Corners, 14510
When was it listed? November 2002
Category. site
Town. Groveland town
National Register reference number. 02001328 - 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

181 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Williamsburg Cemetery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 251 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 45 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	75
Arson/incendiarism	45
Smoking	28
Natural	12
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Williamsburg Cemetery: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Halite, Potassium, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Flagstone. 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
Highway Dept. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Retsof Mine	Halite, Potassium, Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer	1884
Reynolds Quarry	Flagstone	Producer
Geo.F.Hudson Well	Salt	Past Producer
Phoenix Salt Well	Salt	Past Producer
Royal Salt Co.Well	Salt	Past Producer
Sterling Salt Shaft No.1	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston 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.

1905 USGS Nunda quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Sonyea quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Sonyea quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Sonyea quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1983 USGS Canandaigua 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
Sweet Briar	1.8 miles	2010
House at No. 8 State Street	2.6 miles	1999
Gen. William A. Mills House	2.7 miles	1978
House at No. 13 Grove Street	2.7 miles	1999
New Family Theater	2.7 miles	1997
South Main Street Historic District	2.7 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001328 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston County	All 92 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.