Frankfort Hill District Number 10 School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Frankfort Hill District No. 10 School is a historic one-room school building located at Frankfort Hill in Herkimer County, New York. It was built in 1846, and is a rectangular wood-frame building with board-and-batten siding and a steep gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Frankfort Hill District No. 10 School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. 2235 Albany Rd., Frankfort Hill, 13340
When was it listed? June 2011
Category. building
Town. Frankfort town
National Register reference number. 11000401 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

215 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Frankfort Hill District Number 10 School between 2000 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 32 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	109
Arson/incendiarism	32
Smoking	27
Debris and open burning	22
Natural	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Herkimer 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 Frankfort Hill District Number 10 School: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Davis Opening	Iron	Past Producer
Golf Road Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jones & Smith Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Jones & Smith Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ludlow Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Ludlow Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Herkimer 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.

1898 USGS Utica quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Utica quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1943 USGS Utica East quadrangle1:24000
1945 USGS Utica East quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Utica East quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Utica East quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Utica 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
Balloon Farm	5.3 miles	1998
Cedar Lake Methodist Episcopal Church	5.4 miles	2020
Frankfort Town Hall	5.6 miles	1999
US Post Office-Frankfort	5.8 miles	1989
Remington House	5.9 miles	1997
Thomas Richardson House	7.0 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000401 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Herkimer County	All 74 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.