Cedar Grove Cemetery

Built in 1873. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Cedar Grove Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Chaumont in Jefferson County, New York. It is a small cemetery established in 1873 whose pronounced slopes entailed the use of terraced plots.”
Wikipedia article Cedar Grove Cemetery (Chaumont, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1990 · category: Site · built in 1873.

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 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Washington St., Chaumont, 13622
When was it listed? September 1990
Category. site
Also known as. Lyme MRA
Town. Lyme town
When was it built? 1873
National Register reference number. 90001324 - 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

95 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Grove Cemetery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 9 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	55
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cedar Grove Cemetery: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Chamont Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Surface

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chaumont, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaumont	$15,000	no account filed
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaumont	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2005	Hail	Chaumont	$10,000	no account filed
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaumont	$1,000	Trees were reported to be down on Three Mile Point Road.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

6 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.

1900 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1942 USGS Chaumont quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Chaumont quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Cape Vincent 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
George House	0.1 miles	1990
George Brothers Building	0.2 miles	1990
Chaumont Historic District	0.2 miles	1990
Chaumont Grange Hall and Dairymen's League Building	0.3 miles	1990
Chaumont Railroad Station	0.3 miles	1990
Evans-Gaige-Dillenback House	0.4 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001324 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 144 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.