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North Star School District No. 11

Built in 1844 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“North Star School District No. 11, also known as the North Star History Center, is a historic one-room school building located at Hamlin, Monroe County, New York. It was built in 1844, and is a one-story, Greek Revival style brick building.”

Wikipedia article North Star School District No. 11, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1844, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 660 Walker Lake Ontario Rd., Hamlin, 14468
  • When was it listed? September 2014
  • Category. building
  • Town. Hamlin town
  • When was it built? 1844
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 14000579 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

93 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of North Star School District No. 11 between 2002 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 33 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/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism33
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Debris and open burning5
Natural5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamlin, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHamlin$17,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHamlin$15,000The public reported a large tree down on Huntington Parkway in Hamlin.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHamlin$15,000no account filed
November 2005Thunderstorm WindHamlin$15,000no account filed
April 1996HailHamlin$15,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHamlin$1,000Several six to eight inch diameter tree limbs were downed.
June 2023HailHamlin-A report of one inch hail was received.

Every storm recorded in Monroe County

Maps showing this location

8 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

3 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
Curtis-Crumb Farm4.0 miles1997
Clarkson Corners Historic District6.8 miles1994
Chase Cobblestone Farmhouse6.8 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000579 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe CountyAll 233 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.
  • 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.