Bruynswick School No. 8

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Bruynswick School No. 8 is a former school located on Bruynswick Road in the small hamlet of the same name in the northwestern portion of Shawangunk, New York, United States. It is one of the few remainders of a time when Bruynswick was more populous.”
Wikipedia article Bruynswick School No. 8, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster 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. 2146 Bruynswick Rd., Shawangunk, 12589
When was it listed? November 2000
Category. building
Town. Shawangunk town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 00001277 - 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

84 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Bruynswick School No. 8 between 1995 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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	49
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
2 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ulster 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 Bruynswick School No. 8: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Geiger Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Geiger Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster 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.

1903 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1903 USGS Newburgh quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Gardiner quadrangle1:31680
1946 USGS Newburgh quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Gardiner quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 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
Brykill	0.7 miles	1983
Reformed Church of Shawangunk Complex	0.7 miles	1982
Johannes Decker Farm	1.2 miles	1974
Terwilliger House	1.3 miles	1983
Peter Aldrich Homestead	1.7 miles	1983
William Decker House	2.1 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001277 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 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.