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Hamden District No.1 School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1923.

From the record

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 5594 E River Rd., Hawleys, 13782
  • When was it listed? December 2018
  • Category. building
  • Town. Hamden town
  • National Register reference number. 100003152 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

26 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Hamden District No.1 School between 2002 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined16
Natural3
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
19 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2016Natural1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 August 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 June 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.1 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 Hamden District No.1 School: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hamden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Howe Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Tompkins BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hawleys, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 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
February 2017Flash FloodHawleys$45,000Thunderstorms with heavy rain, combined with residual snow melt and saturated ground, created flash flood conditions in the area. Several roads, including Peas Eddy Road were washed out with deep gravel deposits blocking lanes of traffic.

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

9 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
Hamden Covered Bridge2.6 miles1999
First Congregational Church of Walton5.4 miles2015
US Post Office-Walton5.4 miles1989
Gardiner Place Historic District5.4 miles1984
Christ Episcopal Church5.4 miles1999
Walton Grange #1454-Former Armory5.5 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100003152 in Record Group 79.
Delaware CountyAll 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.
  • 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.