Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.
From the record
“Indian Rock Schoolhouse, also known as District 3 Schoolhouse or Webutuck Country Schoolhouse, is located on Mygatt Road in the hamlet of Amenia, New York, United States. It is a wooden one-room schoolhouse built in the mid-19th century in accordance with a standard state plan for small rural schools that reflected contemporary educational reform movements.”
Wikipedia article Indian Rock Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.02000306- 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.
Then and now
1899 to 1993
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18991993
Fires near this property
109 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Indian Rock Schoolhouse
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 10 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
55
Debris and open burning
19
Natural
16
Arson/incendiarism
10
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Other causes
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
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
26 workings within 5 miles of Indian Rock Schoolhouse: 22 past producers, 4 producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Iron, Manganese, Lead. 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
Amenia, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado.
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.
A tornado briefly touched down just south of Amenia, New York |and moved north northeast into the village. The tornado started|near the intersection of Powder House Road and Ohandley Drive and|caused sporadic damage along its path length. One house along|Ohandley drive had partial roof damage and a two by four and a|small branch driven into the side of the home. Nine out of ten |homes on Ohandley Drive sustained damage. The tornado ended near |the intersection of Mechanic Street and East Main Street where it |ripped the roof off a restaurant.
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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