New Lebanon District No. 8 School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2021 · 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. 565 US 20 (Columbia Tpk.), New Lebanon, 12125
When was it listed? April 2021
Category. building
Town. New Lebanon town
National Register reference number. 100006480 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1888 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering New Lebanon District No. 8 School, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet covering New Lebanon District No. 8 School, surveyed 1888

Fires near this property

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of New Lebanon District No. 8 School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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	74
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 June 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of New Lebanon District No. 8 School: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Limestone, General. 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
Lebanon Springs Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Shaker Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Limonite
Shaker Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Shaker Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Lebanon, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	New Lebanon	-	Several trees and wires were downed throughout the Town of New Lebanon including Route 20, Route 22 and Mill Road.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	New Lebanon	-	Trees and wires were downed in the Town of New Lebanon.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	New Lebanon	-	Tree was downed onto a car.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	New Lebanon	-	Trees were reported down in New Lebanon due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	New Lebanon	-	Trees and wires were reported down in New Lebanon due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	New Lebanon	-	Wires were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds in New Lebanon.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	New Lebanon	-	Trees were reported down in New Lebanon and also in Chatham due to strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	New Lebanon	-	Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

22 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.

1888 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1899 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Canaan quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Canaan quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Canaan quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Canaan quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1973 USGS Canaan quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1975 USGS Canaan quadrangle1:25000
1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1988 USGS Pittsfield West quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1998 USGS Pittsfield West quadrangle1:25000

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
Gov. Samuel J. Tilden Monument	0.9 miles	2006
Shaker North Family Barn	0.9 miles	1966
Lebanon Springs Union Free School	0.9 miles	1991
Church of Our Saviour	1.0 miles	1997
Elisha Gilbert House	1.8 miles	1984
Donnelly House	2.3 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006480 in Record Group 79.
Columbia County	All 155 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.