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Photograph of Ferndale School
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Ferndale School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Ferndale School, also known as District 6 School, is a historic one-room school located at Ferndale in Sullivan County, New York. It was built about 1850 and is a one-story, wood-frame building with clapboard siding surmounted by a gable roof with exposed rafters.”

Wikipedia article Ferndale School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2005 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Uppper Ferndale Rd. and Ferndale Loomis Rd., Ferndale, 12754
  • When was it listed? January 2005
  • Category. building
  • Town. Liberty town
  • National Register reference number. 04001437 - 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

175 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Ferndale School between 1997 and 2020, burning about 211 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined88
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism22
Other causes9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking8
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2012Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2014Smoking2.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ferndale, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFerndale$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto wires.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFerndale$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on NY 17 Eastbound.

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Shelburne Playhouseunder 500 feet2004
Manion's General Store0.2 miles2004
Munson Diner1.4 miles2006
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church1.6 miles1997
Town and Country Building1.6 miles2004
Liberty Downtown Historic District1.7 miles2006

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001437 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan CountyAll 79 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.