Wright Settlement Cemetery

Built in 1806. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Wright Settlement Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Wright Settlement in Oneida County, New York. It was established about 1806, and includes about 3,000 gravestones.”
Wikipedia article Wright Settlement Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Oneida County · listed in 2012 · category: Site · built in 1806.

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 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Cemetery Rd., Wright Settlement, 13440
When was it listed? May 2012
Category. site
City. Rome city
When was it built? 1806
National Register reference number. 12000256 - 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

252 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Wright Settlement Cemetery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 43 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	152
Arson/incendiarism	43
Smoking	25
Natural	16
Debris and open burning	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Wright Settlement Cemetery: 6 past producers, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Craig Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hanicker Brothers Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hanicker Brothers Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
No. 5 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sullivan Sand & Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sullivan Sand & Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida 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.

1904 USGS Boonville quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1947 USGS Westernville quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Westernville quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Utica 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
Beeches Historic District, The	2.3 miles	2023
Rome Residential Historic District	3.0 miles	2025
Rome Cemetery	3.2 miles	2022
Jervis Public Library	3.2 miles	1982
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Rome	3.4 miles	2010
Mills House	3.4 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000256 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oneida County	All 90 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.