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Photograph of B'nai Israel Synagogue
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B'nai Israel Synagogue

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“B'nai Israel Synagogue, more commonly called The Woodbourne Shul, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and historic, popular synagogue, located at 457 NY State Route 52, in Woodbourne, New York, United States. The congregation follows the Ashkenazi rite.”

Wikipedia article B'nai Israel Synagogue (Woodbourne, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 52, Woodbourne, 12569
  • When was it listed? January 1999
  • Category. building
  • National Register reference number. 98001620 - 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.

Storms near this property

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodbourne, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning. 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
August 2002LightningWoodbourne$50,000Lightning started a house fire in Woodbourne on Mongaup Road. The house was destroyed. House cost is an estimate.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindWoodbourne$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires near 461 Route 52.
November 1996Thunderstorm WindWoodbourne$10,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindWoodbourne$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree and wires near 141 Michigan Road.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWoodbourne$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindWoodbourne$5,000Power lines and trees down in Woodbourne and Summitville. Power lines and trees down also in Fallsburg at 1315 EST.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWoodbourne$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires on Riverside Drive.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindWoodbourne$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires onto Michigan Road.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWoodbourne$1,000Trees were blown down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWoodbourne-The New York State Mesonet station WBOU (Woodbourne) measured a gust of 59 mph.
July 2014HailWoodbourne-no account filed
June 2009HailWoodbourne-no account filed
June 2008HailWoodbourne-no account filed
June 2008HailWoodbourne-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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001620 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.
  • 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.