Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.
From the record
“District School No. 9, sometimes referred to as the Old Stone Schoolhouse, is located on NY 17A 1.4 mile (2.3 km) south of Goshen, New York, United States. One of the first schools in the county, it remained in use for well over a century, possibly two.”
Wikipedia article District School No. 9, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.88001451- 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
281 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 281 fires within 5 miles of District School No. 9
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 180 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 42 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
152
Arson/incendiarism
42
Smoking
33
Debris and open burning
13
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Natural
10
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Recreation and ceremony
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
12 workings within 5 miles of District School No. 9: 6 past producers, 6 producers.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Goshen, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 30 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 flood.
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.
An unusually strong cold front moved into the Lower Hudson Valley Thanksgiving morning. Thunderstorms developed along this cold front, and were accompanied by strong gusty winds at a few locations. Thunderstorm winds brought down trees and billboards on Route 17 and Harriman Drive in Goshen. Reports of damage to commercial buildings were also received. About 3 miles west of Goshen, in the town of New Hampton, the same line of thunderstorms tore apart a small barn owned by a farmer, and scattered the pieces a hundred yards from where the barn originally stood. Several large trees were uprooted in New Hampton as well. About 3,300 customers in Central Orange County experienced power outages due to the thunderstorm's winds.
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.
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.
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.
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