Common School No. 10

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Common School No. 10 is a historic one-room school building located in Accord in Ulster County, New York. It is a 1-story, two-by-three-bay, frame building on a fieldstone foundation built about 1870.”
Wikipedia article Common School No. 10, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Northside of Upper Cherrytown Rd., Accord, 12446
When was it listed? September 1988
Category. building
Town. Rochester town
National Register reference number. 88001439 - 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.

Then and now

1903 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Common School No. 10, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Common School No. 10, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

72 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Common School No. 10 between 2001 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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	56
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
11 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Accord, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2010: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	$20,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	$12,000	no account filed
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	$5,000	A strong cold front moved across Eastern New York during the late afternoon and evening hours of September 3rd. A tornado touched down in the Hamilton County Town of Long Lake. The tornado had a continuous path of about three miles from halfway between Deer Pond and North Pond to 1.5 miles southwest of Hardigan Pond. It then skipped along another 3-mile- path with the last touch down occurring halfway between Salmon Lake and Rock Pond. The tornado downed large swaths of forest timber as it left a damage path up to 0.25 mile wide. In Oneida, Sullivan and Ulster Counties thunderstorm winds downed tree limbs and power lines across parts of each county leaving over 7,000 customers without power in Oneida County and more than 5,000 customers without power in Ulster County. In Highmount in Delaware County lightning struck a house twice during the same storm. The lightning blew out windows in the house, dug up the yard and disabled two vehicles. In Broome County thunderstorm winds downed a tree and power lines off Rte. 26 near the North Endicott Substation.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	$5,000	no account filed
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	$5,000	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Accord	$4,000	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	$2,000	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Accord	$2,000	no account filed
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Accord due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	-	Trees were blown down.
May 2004	Hail	Accord	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Accord	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1903 USGS Slide Mountain quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Slide Mountain quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1942 USGS West Shokan quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS West Shokan quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS West Shokan quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS West Shokan quadrangle1:24000

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
Sebastian Baker Stone House	5.2 miles	1996
C. K. Schoonmaker Stone House	5.5 miles	1997
Zachariah Barley Stone House	5.6 miles	1995
J. Dupuy Stone House	5.8 miles	1997
Terwilliger-Smith Farm	5.8 miles	2002
Schoonmaker Stone House and Farm	5.8 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001439 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 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.