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Photograph of Shepard Settlement Cemetery
Photograph by Crazyale, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Shepard Settlement Cemetery

Built in 1823. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Shepard Settlement Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Shepard Settlement, Onondaga County, New York. It was established about 1823, and remains an active burial ground containing approximately 500 burials.”

Wikipedia article Shepard Settlement Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 178 National Register listings published here for Onondaga County · listed in 2010 · category: Site · built in 1823.

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 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Stump & Foster Rds, Shepard Settlement
  • When was it listed? November 2010
  • Category. site
  • Town. Skaneateles town
  • When was it built? 1823
  • National Register reference number. 10000938 - 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

117 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Shepard Settlement Cemetery between 2002 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined57
Debris and open burning17
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
20 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Shepard Settlement Cemetery: 8 producers, 6 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Skaneateles Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Syracuse Pottery Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Camillus QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Halfway QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Limeledge Quarry DivisionStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Marcellus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Nine Mile Creek QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Skaneateles QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Edwards PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fiato Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Onondaga County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Kelsey-Davey Farm0.9 miles1980
Tefft-Steadman House2.9 miles2007
Mottville Cemetery2.9 miles2021
Dan Bradley House3.1 miles1978
Community Place3.2 miles1979
Martisco Station3.3 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000938 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Onondaga CountyAll 178 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.