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Red Rock Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 23 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 2022 · 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. 459 Cty. Rd. 24, Red Rock, 12060
  • When was it listed? October 2022
  • Category. building
  • Town. Canaan town
  • National Register reference number. 100008311 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1888 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Red Rock Schoolhouse, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Red Rock Schoolhouse, surveyed 1888

Fires near this property

127 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Red Rock Schoolhouse between 1993 and 2020, burning about 177 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined70
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking1

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Red Rock Schoolhouse: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Manganese, Iron. 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
Canaan Lead Silver MinesLead, Silver, ZincProducerReplacement Vein
Gott-Mesick Bog Mn OccurrenceManganese, IronProducer
Gott-Mesick Bog Mn OccurrenceManganese, IronPast Producer
Canaan Lead Silver MinesLead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Canaan Pb-Ag MinesLead, Silver, ZincPast ProducerVein
Gott-Mesick Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Rock, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 7 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 1993Thunderstorm WindRed Rock$5,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed trees along Macedonia Road and County Route 24 in Red Rock.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindRed Rock$5,000no account filed
July 2023Flash FloodRed Rock-Flooding was reported at 563 County Route 24.
July 2023FloodRed Rock-Flooding was observed along County Route 24 near Red Rock.
July 2021Flash FloodRed Rock-There was a report that County Route 24 between County Route 9 and Stonewall Road was flooded.
August 2018Flash FloodRed Rock-A rockslide resulted in a road closure.
June 2014Flash FloodRed Rock-Heavy rain from thunderstorms led to flash flooding 1 mile east-northeast of Red Rock. Flooding on County Route 24 caused a portion of the road to wash out and the route was impassable.
June 2014Flash FloodRed Rock-Heavy rain from thunderstorms led to flash flooding 1 mile south-southeast of Red Rock in the town of Austerlitz. The intersection of Macedonia Road and Stonewall Road was washed out and closed as a result of the flooding.
June 2014Flash FloodRed Rock-Heavy rain from thunderstorms led to flash flooding 1 mile west-southwest of Red Rock in the town of Austerlitz. A portion of Ten Broeck Road was washed out and closed as a result of the flooding.
June 2014Flash FloodRed Rock-Heavy rain from thunderstorms led to flash flooding at 286 Clark Road in the town of Chatham. The force of the flood waters knocked trees over as well.
March 2011FloodRed Rock-The following roads were reported closed due to flooding in Columbia County: State 9J between County Route 46 and Sharptown Road in the Town of Stuyvesant, State Route 9G near Mount Merino Road in the Town of Greenport and State Route 23 near Brady Lane in the Town of Hillsdale. Also, Indian Creek was reported to have overflown its banks in the Towns of Chatham and Austerlitz along Clark Road, County Route 24.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindRed Rock-Trees were reported down in Red Rock as a result of strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

23 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
The Red Rock Monument0.7 miles2025
Knollcroft2.7 miles1985
New Concord Historic District2.8 miles2010
Pratt Homestead3.5 miles2009
Lace House3.5 miles1985
Rowe-Lant Farm3.7 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100008311 in Record Group 79.
Columbia CountyAll 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.