Guilford Center Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

“Guilford Center Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Guilford Center in Chenango County, New York. The cemetery contains approximately 427 burials, with 318 markers, Some are fallen or broken.”
Wikipedia article Guilford Center Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chenango County · listed in 2005 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. Cty Rte. 36, Guilford Center, 13780
When was it listed? October 2005
Category. site
Town. Guilford town
National Register reference number. 05001129 - 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Guilford Center Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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	18
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 June 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 May 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
23 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Chenango 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.

1915 USGS Unadilla quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Unadilla quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Guilford quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1945 USGS Guilford quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton 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
Guildford Center Presbyterian Church	0.1 miles	2004
Jewell Family Homestead	1.4 miles	2017
North Guilford Cemetery	3.1 miles	2020
Rockdale Community Church	3.6 miles	2005
Rockwells Mills Historic District	4.9 miles	2010
White Store Church and Evergreen Cemetery	6.0 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001129 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chenango County	All 47 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.