Carley's Mills Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Carley's Mills Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located at Hastings in Oswego County, New York. It is a modestly scaled, one story frame building built about 1870.”
Wikipedia article Carley's Mills Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Oswego 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Oswego Cty Rte 84, Hastings, 13076
When was it listed? January 2005
Category. building
Town. Hastings town
National Register reference number. 04001449 - 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

100 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Carley's Mills Schoolhouse between 2000 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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	58
Arson/incendiarism	20
Debris and open burning	10
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	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
19 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
18 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Carley's Mills Schoolhouse: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Chauvin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
French Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hays & Smith Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hogback Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Weaver Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Weaver Pit Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this property

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hastings, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$15,000	no account filed
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Hastings.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$10,000	A trained spotter reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$10,000	A trained spotter reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
May 2013	Hail	Hastings	$10,000	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Hastings	$10,000	no account filed
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$8,000	Law enforcement reported trees down.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$8,000	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$5,000	Multiple reports of trees downed.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$2,000	Trees and wires downed in the Town of Hastings.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$2,000	Tree downed on wires in Hastings.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$2,000	Tree downed on wires in Hastings.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$2,000	Trees and lines were downed in the town of Hastings.
August 2023	Hail	Hastings	-	Large hail was reported by the public on social media.

Every storm recorded in Oswego County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1905 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Mallory quadrangle1:31680
1957 USGS Mallory quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Pleasant Lawn Cemetery	2.3 miles	2005
Red Mill Farm	3.8 miles	1991
Asa and Caroline Wing House	4.1 miles	2001
Stillman Farmstead	6.4 miles	1991
Slack Farmstead	6.4 miles	1991
Thayer Farmstead	7.8 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001449 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oswego County	All 93 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.
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.