Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
From the record
“Cosman Family Cemetery is a historic family cemetery located near Middle Hope, New York, which is near Newburgh in Orange County, New York. The cemetery is the last feature remaining from the Cosman farmstead established in the mid-18th century.”
Wikipedia article Cosman Family Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2006 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.06001002- 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
370 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 370 fires within 5 miles of Cosman Family Cemetery
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 511 acres in total. 24 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
219
Arson/incendiarism
45
Smoking
24
Natural
24
Debris and open burning
19
Equipment and vehicle use
16
Recreation and ceremony
9
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
3
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
19 workings within 5 miles of Cosman Family Cemetery: 13 past producers, 6 producers.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Middle Hope, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
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.
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.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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