Forks in the Road Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Forks in the Road Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located at South Gilboa in Schoharie County, New York. It is a one-story, rectangular, gable roofed, timber-framed building built in 1849.”
Wikipedia article Forks in the Road Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie 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. 115 Lumber Rd., South Gilboa, 12167
When was it listed? July 2005
Category. building
Town. Gilboa town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 05000665 - 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

45 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Forks in the Road Schoolhouse between 2001 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 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	17
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 July 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
11 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1904 USGS Hobart quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1945 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1946 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
South Gilboa Railroad Station	0.3 miles	2000
Stewart House and Howard-Stewart Family Cemetery	2.6 miles	2012
Parker 13-Sided Barn	5.2 miles	1984
Jefferson Historic District	5.4 miles	2025
First Presbyterian Church of Jefferson	5.5 miles	2012
Lansing Manor House	5.7 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000665 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schoharie County	All 52 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.