Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
From the record
“Knox District School No. 5 is a historic one-room school building located within Thompson's Lake State Park in the town of Knox in Albany County, New York. It was built in 1898 and is a one-story 20-by-24-foot rectangular frame building on a dry laid stone foundation.”
Wikipedia article Knox District School No. 5, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.05000441- 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
108 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Knox District School No. 5
between 2001 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 17 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
63
Arson/incendiarism
17
Natural
10
Debris and open burning
6
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Smoking
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. Museums hold 1,678 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Knox District School No. 5 between 1860 and 1975: 1,065 Animalia, 303 Plantae, 292 Fungi, 11 Protozoa, 6 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A C. Frederick, A. A. Heller, Alexander, Charles Paul and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Knox District School No. 5: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Knox, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 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.
Numerous roads were closed across Albany County due to flash flooding. Some of these roads included Beebe Road in Knox, the intersection of Fuller Road and Western Avenue in Guilderland, the intersection of Western Avenue and Schoolhouse Road in Guilderland, and also Route 5 between Osborne Road and the Interstate 90 overpass.||In addition, significant damage occurred to a home in McKownville, near Guilderland, where a foundation wall collapsed, allowing water and mud to enter the basement.
A local 911 call center operator reported portions of Township Road in Knox being barricaded off due to flooding but stated that the road remained passable.
A tornado continued into northwestern Albany County after a long path across Schenectady County. The tornado produced damage to trees and a roof on Bozenkill Road before dissipating. Although the entire path of the tornado was nearly 7 miles, it was only on the ground in Albany County for about a half of a mile.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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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