Built in 1790. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“The Cornwall Friends Meeting House is a historic meeting house located on a 5.4-acre (2.2 ha) parcel of land at the junction of Quaker Avenue and US 9W in Cornwall, New York, United States, near Cornwall-St. It is both the oldest religious building in the town, and the first one built.”
Wikipedia article Cornwall Friends Meeting House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1790.
National Register reference number.88002751- 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.
Then and now
1902 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19021994
Fires near this property
496 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 496 fires within 5 miles of Cornwall Friends Meeting House
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,034 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 46 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
311
Arson/incendiarism
46
Recreation and ceremony
32
Natural
29
Smoking
24
Debris and open burning
20
Equipment and vehicle use
20
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Fireworks
3
Other causes
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
16 workings within 5 miles of Cornwall Friends Meeting House: 10 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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.
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