Direct answer and scope
The supported statewide New York statement is narrow: the dated official PDF contains 48 physical-crematory listing rows across 30 counties. This is a measurement of that particular source snapshot, not a statement about the number of distinct businesses or the number of facilities currently operating.
The endpoint remained reachable when checked on August 26, 2026, while the source revision it served was dated December 11, 2024. Both dates belong in the interpretation. The later endpoint check confirms the revision encountered at that check, but it does not make the underlying list a live status roster or establish statewide completeness.
The comparison therefore has two different units. The first is a PDF row, identified using the published fields and cemetery number. The second would be a business or other real-world entity established through separate matching evidence. The supplied record supports the first unit only.
How to use the supplied evidence
Use the 48 figure only with its full source context: the New York Department of State crematory listing, the December 11, 2024 revision, the August 26, 2026 endpoint verification date, and the stated row and county measurements. Removing that context would make the number appear broader than the evidence allows.
Use each listed row as the source publishes it. The available fields are county, cemetery number, name, address, city, state, ZIP code, and telephone number. Those fields can describe what appears in the record, but they do not supply an additional ownership, operating, service, capacity, access, or relationship determination.
A relationship between an arranger and a physical crematory is a separate evidence question. Separate arranger identity evidence, separate physical-facility evidence, and case-specific authorization evidence are needed for the respective links. A missing link remains unknown, and a shared name, brand, address, telephone number, or marketing statement does not by itself resolve ownership, onsite operation, or case routing.
Decision framework
The appropriate way to interpret the record is to keep each question in its own evidence state. First ask what the source directly measures: 48 physical-crematory listing rows in the specified revision. Then ask whether the evidence resolves physical-facility identity, business identity, ownership, operation, licensing, opening status, services, or present availability. The supplied facts do not authorize those states to be collapsed into the row total.
Deduplication is not automatic. Similar names, addresses, telephone numbers, counties, or cemetery numbers are published fields that may be considered when examining identity, but similarity alone does not establish that two rows represent the same entity or that an entity owns or operates a facility. Unmatched or similar records therefore remain unresolved unless appropriate supporting evidence resolves them.
The resulting framework preserves the source measurement while withholding unsupported derived totals. It also keeps an arranger relationship separate from the listing itself, because an entry in the PDF does not, without additional evidence, establish that a funeral firm owns the facility, operates it onsite, or routes cases there.
| Question | Supported evidence state | What the dated PDF establishes |
|---|---|---|
| Source revision and endpoint check | Documented | PDF revision dated 2024-12-11; endpoint checked 2026-08-26 |
| Raw facility-row measurement | Documented | 48 physical-crematory listing rows across 30 counties |
| Row unit | Documented | Published listing record with cemetery number and listed fields |
| Deduplication and ownership | Unresolved | No supplied evidence supports a derived entity total |
| Current status or availability | Unresolved | The snapshot is not a live operating-status roster |
Evidence limits and unresolved questions
The official source facts establish the measured row count and define the limits of interpreting it. They do not authorize a deduplicated company, owner, provider, licence, open, operating, or available total to be derived from the 48 rows. Each of those categories remains a separate evidence question, and no such total is published here.
The source age is material. A reachable endpoint serving a December 11, 2024 revision does not by itself establish that every listed entry remains current, that an omitted entry is absent from the relevant market, or that a listed entry has a particular present operating state. The evidence supports describing the snapshot and its limits, not extending it into a current market measurement.
The listed fields also should not be enriched by assuming that a name, location, telephone number, county, or cemetery number resolves an entity match. A current official record or case-specific primary document would be needed for a relationship claim within the supplied evidence model. Until such evidence is available, the unresolved state is retained.
Questions people ask
The central distinction is between what the source lists and what separate evidence might establish. The source supports a dated row measurement; it does not establish every identity or current-status determination that a business-count question would require.
Keeping those evidence states separate preserves the source measurement without converting it into an unsupported total for a different unit. It also retains uncertainty where the available evidence does not resolve a match, relationship, or present condition.
Evidence behind this page
Each point below is restricted to what the cited primary source supports. Administrative listing status is not a quality endorsement.
| Evidence | Supported point | Scope and limitation |
|---|---|---|
| Evidence 1 | Display documented, conflicting, or unknown for each evidence link and show the source and verification date supporting that state. | This is a conservative editorial evidence model, not a state-issued relationship status, legal conclusion, or guarantee that the documented route was ultimately used. |
| Evidence 2 | Keep an arranger-crematory relationship unknown until a current official record or case-specific primary document supports it. | This is a fail-closed editorial rule; do not publish an outsourcing accusation, ownership claim, onsite claim, affiliation, or negative inference from missing evidence. |
| Evidence 3 | Publish exact rows from the immutable validated PDF snapshot with the source revision date, verification date, measured row count, measured county coverage, source URL, and interpretation limit. | The measured 48 rows and 30 counties describe this dated PDF snapshot, not active-facility totals, current statewide completeness, quality, availability, public access, or a live operating-status roster. |
| Evidence 4 | Reproduce those exact published fields and identify each row by its cemetery number without enriching it from names, maps, marketing, or third-party sources. | A cemetery number is an administrative identifier as published in this PDF; it does not by itself prove current status, services, ownership, direct-to-public access, or an arranger relationship. |
| Evidence 5 | State listed in the official DOS PDF revision dated 2024-12-11 and verified at the current endpoint on 2026-08-26. | Do not shorten that wording to currently active, currently licensed, currently open, complete, or recently updated; stop publication if the source hash, filename, columns, control totals, or endpoint changes before review. |
Questions people ask
What exactly does the 48-row figure count in the dated New York crematory PDF?
It counts 48 physical-crematory listing rows in the New York Department of State PDF revision dated December 11, 2024, covering 30 counties. The endpoint serving that revision was checked on August 26, 2026. The figure describes that dated snapshot only.
Does one row equal one unique company, owner, operator, brand, or provider?
No such equivalence is established by the supplied evidence. The row is a source record with published listing fields and a cemetery number. Separate evidence would be needed to resolve the identity or relationship represented by each record.
Can similar names, addresses, phones, counties, or cemetery numbers be automatically merged?
No. Similarity in a published field does not by itself resolve identity, ownership, or operation. Similar, unmatched, or conflicting records remain unresolved unless appropriate supporting evidence establishes the relevant identity or relationship.
Does the row total equal a count of licensed, open, operating, or available facilities?
No. The supplied fact describes the PDF as a dated listing snapshot, not a live operating-status roster. The row count therefore does not establish a separate current-status or availability total.
Can the total be used as a current market-size or competitor count?
No. The measured total is limited to the rows in the December 11, 2024 PDF revision. The supplied evidence does not establish current statewide completeness or provide the separate identity and status evidence needed for a market or competitor count.
What happens when row identity, deduplication, ownership, or current-status evidence is missing?
The unresolved state is preserved. Missing, inaccessible, conflicting, similar, unmatched, unavailable, or stale evidence does not become a resolved match, a derived entity count, or a current-status determination.
Primary sources
- New York State Department of Health, Opened Funeral Firms Reports Verified 2026-08-26
- New York State Department of Health, 10 NYCRR 77.5 Funeral Establishments Verified 2026-08-26
- New York State Department of State, Division of Cemeteries, Crematory Frequently Asked Questions Verified 2026-08-26
- New York State Department of State, Authorization for Cremation and Disposition Instructions Verified 2026-08-26
- New York State Department of State, Find a Crematory By County Verified 2026-08-26