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Photograph of Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum
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Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum is a historic cemetery and mausoleum located at Newark Valley in Tioga County, New York. It was established as a community burial ground in 1820 and subsequently expanded through a series of additions made between 1866 and 1931.”

Wikipedia article Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Tioga County · listed in 1998 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • Address. Main St., at the town limits, Newark Valley, 13811
  • When was it listed? March 1998
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Newark Valley MPS
  • Town. Newark Valley town
  • National Register reference number. 98000164 - 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

1901 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet covering Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum, surveyed 1901

Fires near this property

105 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum between 1999 and 2019, burning about 97 acres in total. 12 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/undetermined56
Debris and open burning21
Natural12
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Tioga 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 Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C.Miller No.1 WellSaltProspect
Owego Town of Highway Dept PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tioga County

Storms near this property

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newark Valley, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 1996: 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1995Thunderstorm WindNewark Valley$15,000An isolated severe thunderstorm downed large trees and wires, and blew the top off an old barn.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindNewark Valley$8,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindNewark Valley$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindNewark Valley$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tioga County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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
Silk Street Bridge0.5 miles1998
Morris Clinton House0.5 miles1998
Nowland House0.6 miles1997
Knapp House0.9 miles1998
Newwark Valley Municipal Building and Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library0.9 miles2006
Gilbert E. Purple House1.1 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000164 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tioga CountyAll 57 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.