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Pinckney Corners Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Pinckney Corners Cemetery is a historic cemetery located near Copenhagen in Lewis County, New York. It contains approximately 240 marked burials dating from 1810 to 1901.”

Wikipedia article Pinckney Corners Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 2014 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Pinckney Rd., Copenhagen, 13626
  • When was it listed? September 2014
  • Category. site
  • Town. Pinckney town
  • National Register reference number. 14000578 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

38 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Pinckney Corners Cemetery between 1995 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning4
Natural2

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
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
2 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 May 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this property

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Copenhagen, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCopenhagen$12,000A social media post reported multiple trees down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCopenhagen-Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.

Every storm recorded in Lewis County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000578 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis CountyAll 50 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.
  • 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.