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Photograph of Delphi Village School
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Delphi Village School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Delphi Village School, also known as the Delphi Falls Schoolhouse, is a former one-room schoolhouse located at Delphi Falls, New York in Onondaga County, New York. It was built between 1854 and 1860 and is a frame, "T" plan, vernacular Greek Revival-style structure with a rear woodshed addition.”

Wikipedia article Delphi Village School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 178 National Register listings published here for Onondaga County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

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 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. East Rd., Delphi Falls, 13104
  • When was it listed? May 1986
  • Category. building
  • Town. Pompey town
  • National Register reference number. 86001152 - 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

54 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Delphi Village School between 1993 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined30
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
12 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Delphi Village School: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cazenovia Ready Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this property

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delphi Falls, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindDelphi Falls$8,000A swath of 70 trees were blown down. There was structural damage done to a home as a large tree branch fell through a garage.
July 2008HailDelphi Falls-A 55 mph wind gust was also estimated.

Every storm recorded in Onondaga 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.

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
Delphi Baptist Church0.2 miles1979
Pompey Centre District No. 10 Schoolhouse3.8 miles1998
Fabius Village Historic District4.6 miles2000
Drover's Tavern6.4 miles2003
Oran District No. 22 Schoolhouse7.2 miles1998
Oran Community Church7.2 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86001152 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Onondaga CountyAll 178 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.