Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue

Built in 1923. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

“Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue is a small former Orthodox Jewish synagogue located on Glen Wild Road, Sullivan County Route 58, in the unincorporated community of Glen Wild, New York, in the United States. The congregation was founded in 1913 by a local family and never had its own rabbi.”
Wikipedia article Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1923.

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. Glen Wild Road, Glen Wild, 12738
When was it listed? January 1999
Category. building
Town. Thompson town
When was it built? 1923
National Register reference number. 98001618 - 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

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue between 1992 and 2020, burning about 165 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 18 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	58
Smoking	39
Debris and open burning	19
Arson/incendiarism	18
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
11 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
6 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 August 2017	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bridgeville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bridgeville Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Goodwin Sand and Gravel, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Monticello Black Top Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Wild, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 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 2011	Flood	Glen Wild	$50,000	The Neversink River at Bridgeville crested at 18.02 feet at 900 pm EST August 28th, 2011.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Wild	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto live wires, and the trees caught on fire.
July 2011	Hail	Glen Wild	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1909 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500
1911 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Monticello 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 Woodridge 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
Glen Wild Methodist Church	1.1 miles	1984
Mamakating Park Historic District	3.7 miles	1998
Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue	4.0 miles	2001
Silver Lake Dam	4.1 miles	2000
Rivoli Theatre	4.2 miles	2001
Ohave Shalom Synagogue	4.3 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001618 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.