Lyon Street School

Built in 1880. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

One of 53 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 2013 · category: Building · built in 1880.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Rock & Lyons Rds., Peru, 12901
When was it listed? May 2013
Category. building
Town. Peru town
When was it built? 1880
National Register reference number. 13000304 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

171 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Lyon Street School between 2000 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 21 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	88
Debris and open burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	21
Natural	15
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	6
Other causes	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
8 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2012	Natural	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2013	Other causes	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Clinton 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 Lyon Street School: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Limestone, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bluff Point Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Surface
Bluff Point Quarry	Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cliff Haven Quarry #1	Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cliff Haven Quarry #2	Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Le Zotte Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Surface
Unnamed Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Surface

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this property

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peru, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 19 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$1,500,000	Trees and wires down in Peru and along Lakeshore Drive in South Plattsburgh. In addition, several airport hangar roofs suffered wind damage and an old DC-3 aircraft was pushed through a chain link fence with damage to fence and aircraft.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$50,000	Numerous trees down across Peru, including fallen onto a house that injured two people. Barn roof torn off by high winds as well.
August 2005	Lightning	Peru	$20,000	no account filed
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$15,000	Trees down throughout town, including Jeb Allen Road, Sullivan and Conner streets.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$10,000	Several trees down in Peru.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$10,000	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$5,000	Several trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$5,000	Several trees down.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$5,000	A few trees downed by thunderstorm winds in Peru.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$5,000	Several trees downed by thunderstorm winds in Peru.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$5,000	Trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds across Jarvis Rd. in Peru.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$5,000	An area of low pressure moved into southern Canada during July 3, 1997. The associated cold front moved across northern New York during the late morning and afternoon hours. Showers and thunderstorms preceeded and accompanied these storms and some resulted in locally heavy rain and strong winds. Small hail...generally 1/2 inch or smaller was also reported with a few of the storms.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$5,000	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$5,000	no account filed
August 2003	Flash Flood	Peru	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$5,000	no account filed
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$2,000	Several trees down across Route 22B.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$2,000	Several large branches and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds in Peru.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$1,000	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	$1,000	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Peru	-	Quarter size hail fell.
June 2012	Hail	Peru	-	Quarter size hail reported.
May 2011	Hail	Peru	-	Quarter size hail reported.
May 2011	Hail	Peru	-	Half-dollar size hail reported.
June 2007	Hail	Peru	-	Penny size hail covering the back deck of a house in Peru.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Peru	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Peru	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Peru	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1894 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1906 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1939 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Plattsburgh quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS Keeseville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Lake Champlain North 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
Valcour Bay	1.6 miles	1966
Valcour Island Lighthouse	1.7 miles	1993
Carpenter's Flats Bridge	3.5 miles	1999
Delaware and Hudson Railroad Bridge	3.8 miles	1999
Heyworth-Mason Industrial Building	3.8 miles	2011
Delaware and Hudson Railroad Bridge	3.9 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000304 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton County	All 53 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.