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One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Common School 32
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1924.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 25 Bridge St., Trout Creek, 13839
- When was it listed? March 2017
- Category. building
- Town. Tompkins town
- National Register reference number. 100000811 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
45 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Common School 32 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 30 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 July 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 20 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 June 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 19 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Storms near this property
14 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trout Creek, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2002 | Lightning | Trout Creek | $100,000 | Lightning struck a barn on Herrick Hollow Road setting it on fire. The fire completely engulfed the barn. Eight pigs were killed. Four beef cattle were seriously injured. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Trout Creek | $75,000 | Flooding rains caused severe culvert and road washout damage in several places along County Route 47. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Trout Creek | $50,000 | Torrential rains caused flooding across Route 27 near the Village of Trout Creek. |
| December 2020 | Flash Flood | Trout Creek | $10,000 | Multiple reports received of water flooding all along the Trout Creek area. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $10,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on County Road 27 in Tompkins. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree and wires on Highway 47 in Tompkins. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $5,000 | A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in trees being knocked over on county Route 27 near Trout Creek. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $5,000 | A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in trees being knocked over in Delaware county and in the city of Walton. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $2,500 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Trout Creek | $2,000 | Flooding reported on State Highway 206. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree, blocking a road. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds dislodged a small window from a frame and brought down a large branch. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | - | A tree was blown down on Route 206. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Trout Creek | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited 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.
- 1924 USGS Deposit quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS Deposit quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1944 USGS Deposit quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Trout Creek quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Rock Rift Fire Observation Tower | 7.5 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100000811 in Record Group 79. |
| Delaware County | All 78 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.