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Riverside Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1920.

From the record

“Riverside Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Long Eddy in Sullivan County, New York. It was established in 1885 and contains about 550 markers through 1943.”

Wikipedia article Riverside Cemetery (Long Eddy, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1993 · category: Site.

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 2 structuress, 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 97 SE of jct. with Church St., Long Eddy, 12760
  • When was it listed? November 1993
  • Category. site
  • Town. Fremont town
  • National Register reference number. 93001226 - 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

1920 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Riverside Cemetery, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet covering Riverside Cemetery, surveyed 1920

Fires near this property

27 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Riverside Cemetery between 2005 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning4
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 June 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Eddy, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLong Eddy$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLong Eddy$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires on Route 97.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLong Eddy-Trees down.
July 2010HailLong Eddy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

13 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
Hankins Stone Arch Bridge2.8 miles2000
Anthony Manny House3.0 miles2000
Hankins District No. One Schoolhouse3.1 miles2000
St. Joseph's Seminary6.4 miles1993
Callicoon Downtown Historic District6.6 miles2016
Callicoon National Bank6.6 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93001226 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.
  • 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.