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One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2008 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
St. Andrew's Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. St. Andrew's Rd. and Plains Rd., Walden, 12586
- When was it listed? December 2008
- Category. site
- Town. Montgomery town
- National Register reference number. 08001232 - 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
308 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 308 fires within 5 miles of St. Andrew's Cemetery between 1993 and 2020, burning about 256 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 39 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 | 177 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 39 |
| Debris and open burning | 36 |
| Smoking | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 5 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of St. Andrew's Cemetery: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geiger Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Geiger Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walden, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walden | 4 hurt | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Lightning | Walden | $40,000 | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walden | $7,000 | Several large tree limbs down with medium sized trees snapped. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walden | $7,000 | Three 60-70 ft tall trees down on Sherman Avenue between Union Street and East Avenue. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walden | $3,000 | Several trees and power lines were reported down across the town of Walden. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walden | $1,000 | A tree was reported down at the intersection of Madison and Second Street in Walden. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Walden | - | East Main Street in Walden was closed due to flooding. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Walden | - | Hail ranging from dime to quarter size was reported in Walden. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walden | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down onto a house. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walden | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walden | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
12 surveysUnited 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.
- 1903 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1903 USGS Newburgh quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Walden quadrangle1:24000
- 1943 USGS Walden quadrangle1:31680
- 1946 USGS Newburgh quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Walden quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colden Hill Farm | 2.3 miles | 2020 | |
 | Glibert Millspaugh House | 2.3 miles | 2005 |
 | Brown Farmstead | 2.4 miles | 2005 |
 | John R. Hays House | 2.4 miles | 2002 |
 | St. Andrew's Episcopal Church & Rectory | 2.4 miles | 2008 |
 | Dubois-Phelps House | 2.5 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 08001232 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Orange County | All 187 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.