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Photograph of Springfield Center Elementary School
Photograph by Agreen54, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Springfield Center Elementary School

Built in 1958 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Springfield Center Elementary School is a historic elementary school located at Springfield Center in Otsego County, New York. It was built in 1958, and is a one-story, L-shaped, Modern Movement style school building.”

Wikipedia article Springfield Center Elementary School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 2011 · category: Building · built in 1958, modern architecture.

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. 129 Cty. Rd. 29A, Springfield Center, 13468
  • When was it listed? August 2011
  • Category. building
  • Town. Springfield town
  • When was it built? 1958
  • Architectural style. modern architecture
  • National Register reference number. 11000601 - 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

26 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Springfield Center Elementary School between 2003 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 June 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
14 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 May 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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 Springfield Center Elementary School: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Springfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springfield Center, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Thunderstorm WindSpringfield Center$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree onto a house, resuting in significant damage to the house.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSpringfield Center-A few trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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.

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
St. Mary's Episcopal Church Complex0.3 miles2015
Warren Ferris House0.5 miles2016
Hyde Hall2.7 miles1971
Hyde Hall Covered Bridge3.0 miles1998
East Springfield Union School3.1 miles1996
Lemuel F. Vibber House5.1 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000601 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otsego CountyAll 79 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.