Loch Sheldrake Synagogue

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Loch Sheldrake Synagogue, also called the Hebrew Congregation of Loch Sheldrake and officially Loch Sheldrake Adas Yisroel, is a historic Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on NY 52, north of the junction of NY 52 and Loch Sheldrake Road in Loch Sheldrake, Sullivan County, New York, in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Loch Sheldrake Synagogue, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1997 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 52, N of jct. of NY 52 and Loch Sheldrake Rd., Loch Sheldrake, 12759
When was it listed? August 1997
Category. building
Town. Fallsburg town
National Register reference number. 97000844 - 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

185 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Loch Sheldrake Synagogue between 1998 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 25 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	84
Arson/incendiarism	25
Debris and open burning	19
Smoking	13
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Other causes	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
5 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2014	Smoking	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
17 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
10 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan 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 Loch Sheldrake Synagogue: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Maston Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Maston Lake Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loch Sheldrake, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Loch Sheldrake	$10,000	A thunderstorm cell briefly reached severe levels over central portions of the county early in the afternoon. Large tree limbs and wires were toppled in Loch Sheldrake at around 210 pm EDT.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Loch Sheldrake	$1,000	Several trees were blown down.
May 2011	Hail	Loch Sheldrake	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Loch Sheldrake	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Loch Sheldrake	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1910 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1942 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Liberty East quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello 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
Hasbrouck Stone House	2.5 miles	2019
Center Theatre	3.0 miles	2001
Woodbourne Reformed Church Complex	3.1 miles	2003
Manion's General Store	4.2 miles	2004
Shelburne Playhouse	4.3 miles	2004
Ferndale School	4.3 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000844 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan County	All 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.
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.