Stone Arabia School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Stone Arabia School, also known now as Stone Arabia Schoolhouse Museum, was built in 1854 in Cicero, New York. It is significant as "an outstanding example of a mid-nineteenth century modest Greek Revival style one-room schoolhouse".”
Wikipedia article Stone Arabia School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 178 National Register listings published here for Onondaga County · listed in 2007 · 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. 6453 NY 31, Cicero, 13039
When was it listed? April 2007
Category. building
Town. Cicero town
National Register reference number. 07000289 - 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

172 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Stone Arabia School between 2001 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 36 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	36
Smoking	21
Natural	20
Debris and open burning	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4

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
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this property

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cicero, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	1 killed, 1 hurt, $40,000	A line of thunderstorms became severe as it crossed northern sections of the county close to 1:30 pm EDT. Numerous trees and wires were downed across northern and eastern sections of the Syracuse metropolitan area. One man in Cicero was injured when he was shocked from falling wires. In Syracuse, another man was struck and killed by a large tree limb on the corner of Congress and Holland Streets.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Cicero	$20,000	Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused flash flooding. Volmer Creek went out of it's banks with water over Thompson Road. The water rose into the first floor of several homes.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds uprooted trees in East Syracuse. Winds also downed several trees and partially destroyed a fence in Cicero. A tree fell on a parked car also in Cicero. Winds also blew down several trees in Mattydale.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Cicero	$20,000	Several town parks flooded. A storm culvert collapsed under Eastwood Road south of Route 31.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$15,000	no account filed
July 2005	Lightning	Cicero	$10,000	Lightning started a barn fire.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$10,000	no account filed
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds resulted in multiple reports of trees and wires down in the Cicero area, especially to the southeast.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees and wires.
October 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$5,000	Trees and wires were blown down in the Syracuse area. The strongest part of the storm went north of Syracuse around Cicero. A tree fell on a house in Marcellus.
May 2004	Lightning	Cicero	$5,000	Lightning struck the front porch of a home at 6252 Addison Loomis starting a fire. Firefighters kept the flames from spreading.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Cicero	$5,000	no account filed
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$3,000	Trees were blown down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated close to 60 mph knocked down numerous trees on Ferguson and Island Road in the town of Cicero. There was some minor damage to siding and shingles on a few homes in the area.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$2,000	Trees were blown down in Cicero and Manlius.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down wires near the instersection of Route 31 and Button Road.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on Riley Road.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$1,000	Construction signs were blown over on Interstate 481.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$1,000	Severe thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon hours producing damaging winds and small hail. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
August 2023	Flash Flood	Cicero	-	Water was covering several roads in the area. Drivers had to be rescued after becoming stranded in rising water.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	-	A wind gust was estimated at 60 mph.
May 2008	Hail	Cicero	-	Penny to nickel size hail fell for one minute. Also, pea size hail fell for 8 minutes.
July 2000	Hail	Cicero	-	A report of nickel size hail was received just south of the interchange of Interstate 481 and Route 31.
September 2013	Hail	Cicero	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Cicero	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Cicero	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Cicero	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Cicero	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Cicero	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Onondaga County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1895 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1940 USGS Cicero quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Cicero quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Cicero quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Cicero quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Alvord House	6.8 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000289 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Onondaga County	All 178 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.