Lake View Cemetery

Built in 1891. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Lake View Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in the town of Sweden, near Brockport in Monroe County, New York. It includes a Romanesque Revival style chapel / receiving vault, a small pond, a cast iron tiered fountain, and a distinctive serpentine road system.”
Wikipedia article Lake View Cemetery (Brockport, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2009 · category: Site · built in 1891.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. NY 19, Brockport, 14420
When was it listed? July 2009
Category. site
Town. Sweden town
When was it built? 1891
National Register reference number. 09000559 - 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

135 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Lake View Cemetery between 2003 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 9 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	43
Arson/incendiarism	39
Smoking	20
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lake View Cemetery: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Brockport Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brockport, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Brockport	$350,000	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Brockport	$25,000	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Brockport	$25,000	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Brockport	$25,000	no account filed
September 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Brockport	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down in Brockport.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Brockport	$15,000	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Brockport	$10,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Brockport	$4,000	Thunderstorms during the evening of the 26th and early morning hours of the 27th downed trees and power lines resulting in scattered power outages. In DeWitt, lightning damaged two substations resulting in 10,000 customers being without power.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Brockport	$2,000	Several trees were reported down in Brockport.
June 2009	Hail	Brockport	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1899 USGS Bergen quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1934 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1984 USGS Rochester 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
Brockport Central Rural High School	1.3 miles	2011
Brockport Cemetery	1.3 miles	2016
Edward Harrison House	1.4 miles	2010
Brockport West Side Historic District	1.4 miles	2021
Morgan-Manning House	1.4 miles	1991
Park Avenue and State Street Historic District	1.5 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000559 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 233 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.