North Main Street School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“The North Main Street School is located on that street in Spring Valley, New York, United States. It is a brick Colonial Revival building erected in the early 20th century in response to a rapidly increasing school population.”
Wikipedia article North Main Street School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 2008 · 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. 185 N. Main St., Spring Valley, 10977
When was it listed? February 2008
Category. building
Town. Ramapo town
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 08000105 - 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.

Then and now

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering North Main Street School, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering North Main Street School, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

2,220 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,220 fires within 5 miles of North Main Street School between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,610 acres in total. 100 started naturally. 178 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	1291
Smoking	351
Arson/incendiarism	178
Recreation and ceremony	105
Natural	100
Equipment and vehicle use	81
Debris and open burning	57
Misuse of fire by a minor	38
Power generation/transmission/distribution	17
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
9 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of North Main Street School: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Zirconium. 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	Recorded
Ladentown Copper Deposit	Copper, Zirconium	Occurrence
Mount Ivy Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mount Ivy Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
West Nyack Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
West Nyack Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

1891 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1910 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1931 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1931 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:48000
1934 USGS Park Ridge quadrangle1:24000
1938 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1939 USGS Park Ridge quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1945 USGS Park Ridge quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Park Ridge quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1995 USGS Park Ridge quadrangle1:24000

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
US Post Office-Spring Valley	0.7 miles	1989
St. Paul's Episcopal Church	0.8 miles	2008
Houser-Conklin House	1.5 miles	2010
Brick Church Complex	1.7 miles	1984
English Church and Schoolhouse	1.9 miles	1977
Blauvelt-Cropsey Farm	2.3 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000105 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rockland 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.