Photograph of Mount Albion Cemetery — Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mt. Albion Cemetery

Built in 1843. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Mount Albion Cemetery is located on New York State Route 31 in the Town of Albion, New York, United States, east of the village of Albion, which owns and operates it. It is a rural cemetery established in the 1840s on a glacial drumlin.”
Wikipedia article Mount Albion Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Orleans County · listed in 1976 · category: District · built in 1843.

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

The listing

Address. NY 31, Albion, 14411
When was it listed? September 1976
Category. district
Town. Albion town
When was it built? 1843
National Register reference number. 76001261 - 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

145 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Mt. Albion Cemetery between 2001 and 2020, burning about 99 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 50 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	56
Arson/incendiarism	50
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	10
Smoking	9
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2001	Smoking	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orleans County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mt. Albion Cemetery: 1 prospect, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Huckell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mcnall Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Manning Peat Bog Prospects	Lead, Zinc	Prospect

Every working recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this property

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albion, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2006	Flash Flood	Albion	$200,000	no account filed
October 1996	Flash Flood	Albion	$50,000	no account filed
October 1996	Flash Flood	Albion	$50,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$25,000	no account filed
August 1996	Flash Flood	Albion	$25,000	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Albion	$20,000	no account filed
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds..
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$15,000	Law enforcement report trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
January 1998	Flash Flood	Albion	$15,000	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$10,000	A tree was downed onto a trailer.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$10,000	Officials reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$10,000	Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down on Crimson Heights Road.
September 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down on Zig Zag Road.
June 2008	Hail	Albion	$10,000	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Albion	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$3,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Albion	$1,000	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Albion	$1,000	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orleans County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1897 USGS Albion quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1944 USGS Albion quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Albion quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1950 USGS Albion quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1952 USGS Albion quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1984 USGS Lockport 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
Orleans County Courthouse Historic District	1.8 miles	1979
North Main-Bank Streets Historic District	2.0 miles	1994
William V. N. Barlow House	2.0 miles	1983
Tousley-Church House	2.0 miles	2002
Bacon-Harding Farm	2.8 miles	2013
Fancher World War II Memorial	3.3 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001261 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orleans County	All 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.