Woodward Road Stone Arch Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Woodward Road Stone Arch Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge located at East Durham in Greene County, New York. It was constructed about 1887 and is a single span, dry laid limestone bridge with a round arch.”
Wikipedia article Woodward Road Stone Arch Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 2009 · 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. Woodward Rd., E. Durham, 12423
When was it listed? March 2009
Category. structure
Town. Durham town
National Register reference number. 09000134 - 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Woodward Road Stone Arch Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined	76
Debris and open burning	40
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	7
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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.

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
25 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	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
3 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	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
27 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Maps showing this location

9 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
1943 USGS Freehold quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1945 USGS Freehold quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
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
Weldon House	0.9 miles	2000
Hervey Street Road Stone Arch Bridge	2.4 miles	2008
Shady Glen Road Stone Arch Bridge	2.6 miles	2008
Dunix	3.0 miles	2018
Cornwallville Cemetery	3.1 miles	2017
Prevost Manor House	3.8 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000134 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.