Mount Moor African-American Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Mount Moor African-American Cemetery, also known as Mount Moor Cemetery, is a historic African American cemetery located at Palisades Center, West Nyack in Rockland County, New York. It was established in 1849 and contains approximately 90 known graves including veterans of the Civil War, Spanish-American War and World War I.”
Wikipedia article Mount Moor African-American Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 1994 · category: Site.

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 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Mount Moor African--American Cemetery - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Dexter Rd., off NY 54A, Clarkstown, 10994
When was it listed? August 1994
Category. site
Town. Clarkstown town
National Register reference number. 94001001 - 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

2,046 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,046 fires within 5 miles of Mount Moor African-American Cemetery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,854 acres in total. 125 started naturally. 137 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	1232
Smoking	326
Arson/incendiarism	137
Natural	125
Recreation and ceremony	84
Equipment and vehicle use	70
Debris and open burning	42
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	13
Other causes	1
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mount Moor African-American Cemetery: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	West Nyack Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	West Nyack Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1937 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:31680
1943 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel Number 15	0.2 miles	2001
Terneur-Hutton House	1.2 miles	1973
Ross-Hand Mansion	2.0 miles	1983
St. Paul's United Methodist Church	2.0 miles	2001
Tallman-Budke and Vanderbilt-Budke-Traphagen Houses	2.0 miles	2017
US Post Office-Nyack	2.1 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001001 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rockland County	All 93 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.