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Bald Hill Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Bald Hill Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located at Farmingville in Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1850 and is a small, one story, vernacular rural schoolhouse with Greek Revival style detailing.”

Wikipedia article Bald Hill Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Horseblock Rd., Farmingville, 11738
  • When was it listed? July 1988
  • Category. building
  • Town. Brookhaven town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88001018 - 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

1,894 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,894 fires within 5 miles of Bald Hill Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,297 acres in total. 111 started naturally. 341 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/undetermined1291
Arson/incendiarism341
Natural111
Smoking49
Debris and open burning43
Equipment and vehicle use25
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Recreation and ceremony14
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bald Hill Schoolhouse: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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
Roanoke Mabro Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Roanoke Marboro Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmingville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 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
August 1999HailFarmingville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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
First Congregational Church of New Village3.9 miles2002
Davis Town Meeting House4.5 miles2001
Union Savings Bank5.0 miles2010
Congregational Church of Patchogue5.0 miles1993
US Post Office-Patchogue5.1 miles1989
St. Paul's Episcopal Church Complex5.2 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88001018 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk CountyAll 338 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.