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Brand Hollow 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

“Brand Hollow Road Stone Arch Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge located at West Durham in Greene County, New York. It was constructed by Jeremiah Cunningham in 1892-1893, and is a single span, dry laid limestone bridge with a round arch.”
Wikipedia article Brand Hollow 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. Brand Hollow Rd., West Durham, 12469
When was it listed? April 2008
Category. structure
Town. Durham town
Architect. Jeremiah Cunningham
National Register reference number. 08000271 - 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Brand Hollow Road Stone Arch Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 11 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	24
Arson/incendiarism	11
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	6
Smoking	3
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
4 September 2009	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
17 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
22 July 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire 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
Allan Teator Road Stone Arch Bridge	1.0 miles	2008
Torry-Chittendon Farmhouse	2.7 miles	2010
Union Chapel	3.6 miles	2001
Oak Hill Cemetery	4.0 miles	2011
Parsonage, The	4.3 miles	2005
Moore Road Stone Arch Bridge	4.3 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000271 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.