Union Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Union Chapel, also known as Cornwall Landing Quaker Chapel, is a historic Quaker chapel located in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. It was built about 1873, and is an 18-by-22-foot, wood frame building with board-and-batten siding in a vernacular Italianate style.”
Wikipedia article Union Chapel (Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Shore Rd., Cornwall-on-Hudson
When was it listed? November 2012
Category. building
Town. Cornwall town
National Register reference number. 12000958 - 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

530 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 530 fires within 5 miles of Union Chapel between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,223 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 45 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	331
Arson/incendiarism	45
Natural	40
Recreation and ceremony	36
Smoking	34
Debris and open burning	18
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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
9 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Union Chapel: 22 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Iron, Clay. 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
Bog Meadow Pond Deposit	Zirconium	Occurrence
Constitution Island Occurrence	Molybdenum	Occurrence
Probably Serpentine Marble Rock Quarry No. Hk-022	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Marble
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019	Graphite	Past Producer	Graphite
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019	Graphite	Past Producer
Serpentine Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Serpentine Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Serpentine Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Chateaugay Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1871
Clay Pit No. Hk-020	Clay	Past Producer	Clay

Every working recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

1892 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:48000
1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Lower Dock Hill Road Stone Arch Bridge	0.2 miles	2010
River View House	0.4 miles	1982
Dock Hill Road Extension Stone Arch Bridge	0.4 miles	2010
Storm King Highway	0.5 miles	1982
Camp Olmsted	0.6 miles	1982
Adams-Chadeayne-Taft Estate	0.9 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000958 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.