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Photograph of Stony Point District School No. 4
Photograph by JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ, M.D, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stony Point District School No. 4

Built in 1915 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“Stony Point District School No. 4, also known as the Pyngyp School, is a historic one-room school building located near Stony Point in Rockland County, New York. It was built about 1915, and is a one-story, rectangular wood-frame building with modest Gothic style detailing.”

Wikipedia article Stony Point District School No. 4, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1915, Gothic Revival.

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. Central Dr. at Cedar Flats Rd., Stony Point, 10980
  • When was it listed? January 2012
  • Category. building
  • Town. Stony Point town
  • When was it built? 1915
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 11001005 - 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

678 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 678 fires within 5 miles of Stony Point District School No. 4 between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,879 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 67 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/undetermined422
Smoking73
Arson/incendiarism67
Natural31
Recreation and ceremony24
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use20
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Power generation/transmission/distribution6

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
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2001Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Stony Point District School No. 4: 10 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Emery, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. 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
Ladentown Copper DepositCopper, ZirconiumOccurrence
Peter Wyant Mica Property DepositMica, GraphiteProspect
Stony Point MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Montrose Emery ProspectsEmeryPast ProducerCorundum, Hematite, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Pyrite, Spinel
Montrose Emery ProspectsEmeryProspect
Tompkins Cove QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tompkins Cove QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clay Pit No. Hl-006ClayPast Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-006ClayPast Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-008ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stony Point, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1996HailStony Point-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockland County

Maps showing this location

13 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
J. Garner West House1.6 miles2022
William H. Rose House2.0 miles1999
Stony Point Battlefield2.4 miles1966
M/V COMMANDER2.5 miles1984
Henry M. Peck House2.6 miles2000
Stony Point Lighthouse2.6 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11001005 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rockland CountyAll 93 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.