Spring Glen Synagogue

Built in 1918. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Spring Glen Synagogue is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located along Old U.S. Route 209 in the hamlet of Spring Glen, part of the Town of Wawarsing in Ulster County, New York, in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Spring Glen Synagogue, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1918.

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. Old NY 209, Spring Glen, 12428
When was it listed? January 1999
Category. building
Town. Wawarsing town
When was it built? 1918
National Register reference number. 98001622 - 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

146 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Spring Glen Synagogue between 2001 and 2020, burning about 4,936 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 26 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	55
Arson/incendiarism	26
Debris and open burning	23
Natural	18
Smoking	13
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Spring Glen Synagogue: 4 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Lead, 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
Phillipsort Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Phillipsort Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ellenville Mine	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	Vein
Ellenville Mine	Zinc, Lead	Prospect
Irving Jones Prospect	Zinc, Lead	Prospect
Shawangunk Mine	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	Vein
Sun Ray Tunnel Deposit	Zinc, Lead	Prospect
Ulster Mine Near Spring Glen	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Vein
Spring Glen Deposit	Zinc	Prospect

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Glen, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
October 2021	Flood	Spring Glen	-	Hang Glider Road was closed at the bridge due to flooding.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Spring Glen	-	Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Spring Glen.
September 2011	Flash Flood	Spring Glen	-	Numerous roads were reported closed county-wide due to flooding as small streams overflowed their banks. The Pine Bush schools were closed due to the flooding. Moderate flooding occurred on the Wallkill River at Gardiner. The Gardiner river gage located on left bank 400 feet upstream from bridge on Route 44, 500 feet downstream from Shawangunk Kill, and 0.7 miles northwest of Gardiner exceeded its 13 foot flood stage around 5:30 am EST September 8th, its 16 foot moderate flood stage around 10:30 am, it crested at 17.67 feet around 4 pm, and dropped below flood stage around 3:30 am September 9th.

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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.

1904 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:31680
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
1969 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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
Cragsmoor Historic District	2.7 miles	1996
Chetolah	2.8 miles	1980
Christ Lutheran Church and Parsonage	4.0 miles	2010
US Post Office-Ellenville	4.0 miles	1988
Ellenville Downtown Historic District	4.1 miles	2012
Hoornbeek Store Complex	5.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001622 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 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.