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Photograph of Boyd & Parker Park and Groveland Ambuscade
Photograph by Ed Dehm, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Boyd & Parker Park and Groveland Ambuscade

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Boyd & Parker Park and Groveland Ambuscade is a historic park area located near the Town of Groveland in Livingston County, New York. The site commemorates the Boyd and Parker ambush, which took place during the Sullivan Expedition of the American Revolutionary War of September 1779.”

Wikipedia article Boyd & Parker Park and Groveland Ambuscade, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

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 4 objectss, 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. US 20A; Gray Hill Rd., Cuylerville, 14454
  • When was it listed? October 2009
  • Category. district
  • Town. Groveland town
  • National Register reference number. 07000757 - 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

110 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Boyd & Parker Park and Groveland Ambuscade between 2000 and 2020, burning about 122 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined58
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural13
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Boyd & Parker Park and Groveland Ambuscade: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Natural Gas. 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
Harold Hunt No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
Highway Department PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Highway Department PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Highway Department PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway Department PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuylerville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCuylerville-Trees and large limbs downed between Decker Road and Vanzandt Road in Livonia.

Every storm recorded in Livingston County

Maps showing this location

10 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
Sliker Cobblestone House1.8 miles2007
Conesus Amusement Hall2.5 miles2005
Kellerman Log Cabin2.7 miles2006
Payne Cobblestone House3.4 miles2006
Sparta First Presbyterian Church4.2 miles2007
Black and White Farm Barn5.5 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000757 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston CountyAll 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.
  • 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.