Shady Glen Road Stone Arch Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Shady Glen Road Stone Arch Bridge, also known as Elliotts' Bridge, is a historic stone arch bridge located at Cornwallville in Greene County, New York. It was constructed in 1886 and is a single span, dry laid limestone bridge with a round arch.”
Wikipedia article Shady Glen Road Stone Arch Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 2008 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Shady Glen Rd. at Stone Bridge Rd., Cornwallville, 12423
When was it listed? January 2008
Category. structure
Town. Durham town
National Register reference number. 07001368 - 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

104 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Shady Glen Road Stone Arch Bridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined	60
Arson/incendiarism	15
Debris and open burning	13
Natural	6
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
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
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
8 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornwallville, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2021	Flood	Cornwallville	-	Hervey Street Road was closed between Stone Bridge Road and Golden Hill Road near Cornwallville due to flooding.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cornwallville	-	Trees were downed on Route 20.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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.

1893 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1945 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
Cornwallville Cemetery	1.1 miles	2017
St. Paul's Lutheran Church	2.0 miles	2005
Moore Road Stone Arch Bridge	2.0 miles	2008
Oak Hill Historic District	2.0 miles	2017
W.F. DeWitt Hotel	2.1 miles	2001
Ford's Store	2.1 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001368 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 101 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.
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.