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Photograph of North Lyndon Schoolhouse
Photograph by Pubdog, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

North Lyndon Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1924.

From the record

“North Lyndon Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located at Lyndon in Cattaraugus County, New York. It was built in 1844, and functioned as a local school until 1948.”

Wikipedia article North Lyndon Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Cattaraugus County · listed in 2000 · 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. 7617 North Center Rd., Lyndon, 14737
  • When was it listed? September 2000
  • Category. building
  • Town. Lyndon town
  • National Register reference number. 00000571 - 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

34 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of North Lyndon Schoolhouse between 2006 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 July 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 June 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 June 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of North Lyndon Schoolhouse: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Franklinville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Franklinville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

Listed places nearby

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Simeon B. Robbins House5.2 miles2003
Park Square Historic District5.3 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000571 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cattaraugus CountyAll 39 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.