Camp Hill School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 100 Ladentown Road, Pomona, 10970
When was it listed? August 2019
Category. building
Town. Ramapo town
National Register reference number. 100004244 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1,349 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,349 fires within 5 miles of Camp Hill School between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,992 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 141 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	822
Arson/incendiarism	141
Smoking	137
Recreation and ceremony	63
Natural	52
Equipment and vehicle use	48
Debris and open burning	35
Misuse of fire by a minor	34
Power generation/transmission/distribution	17

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 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

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 Camp Hill School: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Clay Pit No. Hl-009	Clay	Past Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-009	Clay	Past Producer
Mount Ivy Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mount Ivy Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this property

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pomona, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2011	Flood	Pomona	-	Numerous roads were closed due to flooding throughout the town of Clarkstown in New City.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Pomona	-	Local authorities reported widespread flooding and numerous road closures throughout the town of New City.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Pomona	-	Downed tree.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Pomona	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockland County

Maps showing this location

13 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
1938 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Thiells quadrangle1:24000 - 4 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

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
Seaman-Knapp House	0.4 miles	2012
Ladentown United Methodist Church	0.7 miles	2005
Pig Knoll School	1.1 miles	2019
Contempora House	2.0 miles	2009
Henry Varnum Poor House	2.0 miles	2007
Richard Pousette-Dart House and Studio	2.4 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004244 in Record Group 79.
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.
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.