Jewish Community Center of White Sulphur Springs

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

From the record

“Jewish Community Center of White Sulphur Springs, also known as White Sulpher Springs Synagogue, is a historic former Jewish congregation and synagogue located on Briscoe Road, White Sulphur Springs, Sullivan County, New York, in United States.”
Wikipedia article Jewish Community Center of White Sulphur Springs, 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Briscoe Rd., White Sulphur Springs, 12787
When was it listed? August 1999
Category. building
Town. Liberty town
National Register reference number. 99000991 - 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

122 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Jewish Community Center of White Sulphur Springs between 1997 and 2020, burning about 157 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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	70
Debris and open burning	18
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
3 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	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
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire 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
Liberty Village Historic District	4.3 miles	1978
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church	4.3 miles	1997
Liberty Downtown Historic District	4.4 miles	2006
Munson Diner	4.4 miles	2006
Town and Country Building	4.4 miles	2004
All Souls' Church Summer Camp Historic District	4.4 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000991 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.