Leyden Common School No. 2

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 6606 School Rd., Talcottville, 13309
When was it listed? June 2016
Category. building
Town. Leyden town
National Register reference number. 16000392 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

45 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Leyden Common School No. 2 between 2002 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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	19
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
24 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 July 2020	Smoking	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	GOLDEN ROAD FIRE
5 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Leyden Common School No. 2: 6 producers, 5 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron. 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
Port Leyden	Zirconium, Titanium, Iron	Prospect	1952
Port Leyden Mine	Titanium, Metal, Iron	Occurrence
Boonville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Boonville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gingerich Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Boonville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Boonville Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Boonville Sand Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Callanan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kerager Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1905 USGS Port Leyden quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1907 USGS Port Leyden quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1940 USGS Port Leyden quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Port Leyden quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Watertown 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
Edmund Wilson House	0.1 miles	1973
Talcottville Cemetery	0.3 miles	2017
Constable Hall	3.4 miles	1973
St. Mark's Church	3.4 miles	1998
Jonathan C. Collins House and Cemetery	3.5 miles	1988
Jonathan C. Collins House and Cemetery	3.6 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000392 in Record Group 79.
Lewis County	All 50 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.