Amboy District No. 2 Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Oswego County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 398 NY 69, East Amboy, 13493
When was it listed? December 2020
Category. building
Town. Amboy town
National Register reference number. 100005849 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

59 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Amboy District No. 2 Schoolhouse between 2000 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 4 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	34
Debris and open burning	8
Smoking	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 June 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Amboy District No. 2 Schoolhouse: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Pappa Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oswego 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.

1906 USGS Kasoag quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1943 USGS Panther Lake quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Panther Lake quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Utica quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005849 in Record Group 79.
Oswego 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.