District School 4

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“District School 4 is a historic one room school building located at Coventry in Chenango County, New York. It is a wood-frame building on a cut-stone foundation built about 1900.”
Wikipedia article District School 4 (Coventry, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chenango County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 235, Coventry, 13778
When was it listed? April 2004
Category. building
Town. Coventry town
National Register reference number. 04000353 - 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

58 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of District School 4 between 1995 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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	25
Debris and open burning	18
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
17 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 July 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 May 1995	Smoking	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Storms near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coventry, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Coventry	$25,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees on a large property, and a tree that fell onto a farmhouse roof cracked the wooden rafters.
June 2002	Flood	Coventry	$10,000	Heavy thunderstorm rains closed approximately 3 and a half miles of state route 235 from county route 30 (Long Hill Road) south to Davey Road. The road was undermined because of damage to the Wylie Brook culvert.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Coventry	$5,000	The town supervisor reported that water was running across many roads throughout the town.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Coventry	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked took down multiple trees and wires.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Coventry	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree at 1836 State Route 235 near Park Place.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Coventry	$5,000	no account filed
August 2009	Flash Flood	Coventry	$2,000	Roads were closed due to flooding.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Coventry	$2,000	Trees were blown down throughout the southern part of the county.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Coventry	-	Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Chenango County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1902 USGS Coventry quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Brisben quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Brisben quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton 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
Phillips-Manning House	0.2 miles	2017
District School 2	2.1 miles	2004
Sannick Family Farm	5.5 miles	2007
Greene Historic District	6.8 miles	1982
Clinton-Rosekrans Law Building	6.8 miles	1979
Loomis Family Farm	7.7 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000353 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chenango County	All 47 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.
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.