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Photograph of Hillside Cemetery
Photograph by Steven Hamsness, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hillside Cemetery

Built in 1866. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Hillside Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Clarendon in Orleans County, New York. The cemetery was established in 1866, and is the resting place of many early settlers.”

Wikipedia article Hillside Cemetery (Clarendon, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Orleans County · listed in 2013 · category: Site · built in 1866.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. NY 237 & S. Holley Rd., Clarendon, 14470
  • When was it listed? June 2013
  • Category. site
  • Town. Murray town
  • When was it built? 1866
  • National Register reference number. 13000450 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

132 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Hillside Cemetery between 2001 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 52 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
Arson/incendiarism52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural7
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Orleans County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hillside Cemetery: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, 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
Holly Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Clarendon QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Mcnall QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Holly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarendon, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1998HailClarendon$100,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindClarendon$15,000Law enforcement report wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Powerline Road.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindClarendon$500A tree was reported down at route 237 and Lake Road.

Every storm recorded in Orleans County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

Listed places nearby

5 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
Odd Fellows Hall0.5 miles2015
Clarendon Stone Store2.4 miles2012
Fancher World War II Memorial3.7 miles2022
Stevens-Sommerfeldt House5.3 miles2015
Mt. Albion Cemetery6.7 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000450 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orleans CountyAll 30 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.