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Hebron District School No. 16

Built in 1847 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Hebron District School No. 16, also known as the Munson Hollow School, District School No. 12, and District School No. 2, is a historic one-room school building located at East Hebron, Washington County, New York. It was built about 1847, and is a one-story, rectangular, building with modest Greek Revival style design elements.”

Wikipedia article Hebron District School No. 16, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1847, Greek Revival 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. NY 22, East Hebron, 12865
  • When was it listed? April 2012
  • Category. building
  • Town. Hebron town
  • When was it built? 1847
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 12000211 - 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.

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Hebron District School No. 16, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet covering Hebron District School No. 16, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Hebron District School No. 16 between 1992 and 2018, burning about 235 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 18 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
Debris and open burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2015Arson/incendiarism1.9 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 August 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
28 July 2016Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersJECKLE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hebron District School No. 16: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Slate, Dimension, 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
Sheldon Slate Products MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Waterford Sand and GravelSlate, DimensionPast Producer
Sheldon Slate Co. Rupert QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Unnamed Slate QuarriesStone, DimensionPast ProducerMetamorphic
Waterford Sand and Gravel PitStone, DimensionPast ProducerMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Hebron, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2001LightningEast Hebron$100,000Lightning from a thunderstorm, struck a dormitory at Camp Hebron. The dormitory caught fire and was destroyed. No one was hurt since the building was vacant when the fire erupted.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Hebron-An emergency manager reported numerous instances of downed trees and wires in East Hebron which impacted the roads of Thunder Way, Chamberlin Mills Road, County Route 28, Tiplady Road, and Bogtown Road.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Hebron-Trees and wires were reported down in Hebron.

Every storm recorded in Washington County

Maps showing this location

15 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
Hebron Valley Grange No. 11035.1 miles2006
Salem Historic District6.7 miles1975
Revolutionary War Cemetery7.1 miles2004
Alexander McNish House7.3 miles2010
Lemuel Haynes House7.3 miles1975
South Granville Congregational Church and Parsonage7.4 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000211 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 52 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.