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Photograph of Stone Arch Bridge
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Stone Arch Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1922.

From the record

“Stone Arch Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge located at Kenoza Lake, near Jeffersonville, in Sullivan County, New York. It was built in 1873 and is a solid masonry structure with an arched roadway supported by three arches made of hand cut stone.”

Wikipedia article Stone Arch Bridge (Kenoza Lake, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N of Kenoza Lake on NY 52, Kenoza Lake, 12748
  • When was it listed? December 1976
  • Category. structure
  • Town. Delaware town
  • National Register reference number. 76001285 - 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

135 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Stone Arch Bridge between 1999 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined63
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural12
Smoking10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Other causes5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2005Debris and open burning1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
12 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan 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 Stone Arch Bridge: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Town of Delaware PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fosterdale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Fosterdale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenoza Lake, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
October 2021Flash FloodKenoza Lake$20,000Vehicle reported in the river near NY-17B and Mesmer Hill Rd. Water washing out roadway.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindKenoza Lake$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKenoza Lake$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees in the Town of Delaware.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindKenoza Lake$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindKenoza Lake$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down an electric pole and wires at the Villa Roma Resort.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindKenoza Lake$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree and wires near 58 Polster Road.
September 2021Flash FloodKenoza Lake$3,000Flooding was occurring over Route 52A near the Stone Arch Bridge historical site.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindKenoza Lake-Trees and wires were blown down.
June 2009HailKenoza Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001285 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan CountyAll 79 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.