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Photograph of Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery
Photograph by Brother Grilka, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery is a historic Society of Friends meeting house and cemetery in East Park, Dutchess County, New York. It was built in 1797, with an addition built about 1810.”

Wikipedia article Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Quaker Ln., East Park, 12538
  • When was it listed? April 1989
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Dutchess County Quaker Meeting Houses TR
  • Town. Hyde Park town
  • National Register reference number. 89000302 - 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

1898 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet covering Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

277 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 66 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/undetermined149
Arson/incendiarism66
Debris and open burning22
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Smoking8
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery: 10 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
Limestone Quarry No. Hj-005StonePast Producer
Pleasant Valley QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Limestone Quarry No. Hj-0.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pleasant Valley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clinton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hyde Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morris BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mountain Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mountain Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pleasant Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this property

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Park, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Park-Trees were downed and a power pole was damaged.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindEast Park-One tree was downed in Hyde Park due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2013Flash FloodEast Park-The intersection of Crum Elbow Road and Cardinal Road in Hyde Park was closed due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall.
September 2013Flash FloodEast Park-Flash flooding from heavy rainfall occurred in several locations on Crum Elbow Road in Hyde Park.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEast Park-Trees were reported down near Hyde Park due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Quaker Lane Farms0.4 miles2003
William Stoutenburgh House2.8 miles1972
Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School3.0 miles2011
Top Cottage3.0 miles1997
Howard Mansion and Carriage House3.5 miles1993
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site3.5 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89000302 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dutchess CountyAll 266 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.