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Photograph of Hammondsport Union Free School
Photograph by Pubdog, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hammondsport Union Free School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Hammondsport Union Free School, also known as Hammondsport Academy and Hammondsport High School, is a historic school building located at Hammondsport in Steuben County, New York. It is a three-story stone structure in the Italianate style.”

Wikipedia article Hammondsport Union Free School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Steuben 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, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 41 Lake St., Hammondsport, 14840
  • When was it listed? May 2008
  • Category. building
  • Town. Urbana town
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 08000411 - 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

48 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Hammondsport Union Free School between 1998 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined20
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Debris and open burning5
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPIGTAIL FIRE #2
11 September 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNew York Forest RangersURBANA FIRE
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hammondsport Union Free School: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C.Champlin No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Winding Stairs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Winding Stairs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this property

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hammondsport, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015Flash FloodHammondsport$165,000County Route 87 was closed due to severe flooding.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindHammondsport$10,000Trees and wires were blown down across the road.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindHammondsport$10,000no account filed
October 2021Flash FloodHammondsport$5,000Flash flooding closed roads near the intersection of County Route 87 and State Route 54 in the Town of Urbana.
October 2021Flash FloodHammondsport$5,000Flash flooding closed roads near the intersection of County Route 87 and State Route 54 in the Town of Urbana.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHammondsport$2,000A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in a 10 inch diameter tree being knocked over the road.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHammondsport$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and wires.
July 2008HailHammondsport-no account filed
July 2008HailHammondsport-no account filed
June 2006HailHammondsport-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHammondsport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Steuben County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Pulteney Square Historic District0.1 miles1999
Village of Hammondsport Historic District0.2 miles2024
Mallory Mill0.3 miles1999
Timothy M. Younglove Octagon House1.0 miles2002
Germania Wine Cellars1.4 miles2000
Pleasant Valley Wine Company1.6 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000411 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Steuben CountyAll 63 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.
  • 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.