Wethersfield Stone Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Wethersfield Stone Schoolhouse is a historic one room school building located at Trenton in Oneida County, New York, United States. It was built about 1825 and is a vernacular one story, rectangular, gable roofed, stone masonry structure, 26 by 30 feet.”
Wikipedia article Wethersfield Stone Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Oneida 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 365, Trenton, 13354
When was it listed? September 2005
Category. building
Town. Trenton town
National Register reference number. 05000991 - 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

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Wethersfield Stone Schoolhouse between 1997 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 was 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	15
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
18 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 May 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 May 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 May 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 May 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Oneida 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 Wethersfield Stone 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
Barneeveld Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Barneveld Sand & Gravel No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mccartney Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Spear Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Trenton Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida 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.

1897 USGS Remsen quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Remsen quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1946 USGS Remsen quadrangle1:31680
1947 USGS Remsen quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Remsen quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Utica 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
Mappa Hall	1.9 miles	1982
Holland Patent Railroad Station	2.1 miles	2000
Holland Patent Stone Churches Historic District	2.2 miles	1991
Camroden Presbyterian Church	3.1 miles	2007
Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church	5.0 miles	1988
von Steuben, Baron, Memorial Site	5.7 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000991 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oneida County	All 90 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.