Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“Scotchtown Cemetery is a historic vernacular rural cemetery located near Erin in Chemung County, New York. The cemetery includes a variety of monuments dating from the cemetery's founding in about 1880 to the present, with the majority before about 1950.”
Wikipedia article Scotchtown Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chemung County · listed in 2008 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.08001229- 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.
Then and now
1902 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19021992
Fires near this property
90 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Scotchtown Cemetery
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 111 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 17 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
36
Debris and open burning
21
Arson/incendiarism
17
Natural
6
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Smoking
2
Other causes
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
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
7 workings within 5 miles of Scotchtown Cemetery: 4 past producers, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Erin, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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.
The tornado started just west of the Erin Town Hall, south of Route 223. It began just southwest of the local cemetery and tracked toward the northeast. Numerous pine trees were snapped off and uprooted in the cemetery. ||Immediately to the west of the cemetery, a well-constructed barn was destroyed, with all four walls completely collapsed. The tornado tracked northeast and across Route 223. The tornado lofted debris into the yard across the street with debris from the destroyed barn impaled into the front lawn. Debris also blew all the windows out of the front of the home, with some debris penetrating the siding and thrown into the home. At this site, all three vehicles were damaged with a beam from the destroyed barn impaled through the dashboard of one vehicle. An 11,000 pound camper was flipped up over a five foot fence and toppled onto its side before coming to rest.||The tornado continued tracking to the northeast with damage to a barn roof and debris wrapped in trees. A garage and mobile home were completely destroyed. Heavy debris from the mobile home was strewn approximately 100 yards downstream from the site, with lighter material found several miles away. ||The tornado tracked an additional one-half mile up the hill with numerous trees uprooted or snapped and two horses killed on the farm. At this point, the tornado lifted and no additional damage was found.
A cluster of severe thunderstorms moved across Chemung County between 2:30 and 3:30 pm EDT. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down in Erin and the northeastern part of the county between 3:05 and 3:20 pm EDT.
A tornado touched down over the northern part of the town of Erin and tracked to the East-Northeast across Route 224 where it lifted on a hillside. Numerous trees were blown down and a garage collapsed. The winds that caused the damage are estimated between 70 and 80 mph.
Thunderstorms with heavy rain caused flash flooding. Laurel Hill Road in the town of Erin was closed due to water on the road from a creek out of its banks. A few underpasses were flooded in other parts of the county. 2 to 4 inches of rain fell.
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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