Bleecker District No. 3 School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 2025 · 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.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 112 Lily Lake Road, Bleecker, 12078
When was it listed? August 2025
Category. building
Town. Bleecker town
National Register reference number. 100012061 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Bleecker District No. 3 School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 122 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 12 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	57
Debris and open burning	18
Natural	12
Arson/incendiarism	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
15 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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 Bleecker District No. 3 School: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gemstone. 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
	Crystal Grove Diamond Mine	Gemstone	Producer	1955

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this property

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bleecker, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Bleecker	$5,000	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Bleecker	$1,000	no account filed
October 2010	Flood	Bleecker	-	County Route 112 in Bleecker was reported closed due to flooding.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bleecker	-	An emergency Manager reported that trees were blown down in Bleecker.
May 2017	Hail	Bleecker	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1903 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1943 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1963 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:24000
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Gloversville 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
Kingsboro Historic District	4.0 miles	1975
Oliver Rice House	4.7 miles	1995
Gustav Levor House	4.8 miles	2005
First United Methodist Church	4.8 miles	1998
Downtown Gloversville Historic District	4.9 miles	1985
Gloversville Free Library	5.0 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012061 in Record Group 79.
Fulton County	All 25 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.