Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
From the record
“The Southwood Two-Teacher Schoolhouse is a historic school building located on Barker Hill Road just south of East Seneca Turnpike, in the Southwood neighborhood of the town of Onondaga, New York. Further east along the turnpike is the hamlet of Jamesville, New York.”
Wikipedia article Southwood Two-Teacher School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 178 National Register listings published here for Onondaga County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.00000349- 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
284 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Southwood Two-Teacher School
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 36 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
191
Arson/incendiarism
36
Smoking
18
Natural
17
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Debris and open burning
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
20 workings within 5 miles of Southwood Two-Teacher School: 17 past producers, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Jamesville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.
Large hail was reported from Jamesville through Syracuse. Smaller hail up to half inch diameter was reported in DeWitt and Camillus. Thunderstorm winds also brought a tree down onto the front porch of a house on Peters Street in Syracuse.
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.
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.
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.
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