Tefereth Israel Anshei Parksville Synagogue

Built in 1907. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.

From the record

“Tefereth Israel Anshei Parksville Synagogue is a historic former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 2 Main Street in Parksville, Sullivan County, New York, in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Tefereth Israel Anshei Parksville Synagogue, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1907.

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. Dead End St., Parksville, 12768
When was it listed? August 1999
Category. building
Town. Liberty town
When was it built? 1907
National Register reference number. 99000990 - 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

105 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Tefereth Israel Anshei Parksville Synagogue between 1997 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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
Debris and open burning	16
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	1
Smoking	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
5 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
21 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2016	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parksville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Parksville	$10,000	An EF1 tornado with estimated maximum wind speeds of 90 MPH had a path width of 270 yards and a path length of 3/4 of a mile. Cosmetic damage occurred to siding, roofing and chimneys to two residences. Numerous yard ornaments and rail fencing was displaces to the left hand side of the path. Catastrophic tree damage with blow downs, snap-offs and twisting of hardwoods and large hemlock trees occurred in the core of the path.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Parksville	$5,000	Trees blown down near Main street and Route 17 blocking both lanes of road.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Parksville	$1,000	Several trees were blown down on Aden Hill Road.

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.

1921 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1923 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Livingston Manor 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 Liberty West quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 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
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Parksville	0.2 miles	2001
All Souls' Church Summer Camp Historic District	1.0 miles	2023
Hillig Castle	2.7 miles	2021
Liberty Village Historic District	4.0 miles	1978
Liberty Downtown Historic District	4.0 miles	2006
Town and Country Building	4.1 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000990 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.
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.