Van Cortlandtville School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Van Cortlandtville School, also known as Common School District No. 10, is a historic school building located in Van Cortlandtville - a historic neighborhood of the town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York. It was built about 1850 and is a small, one story, brick vernacular Gothic Revival style building.”
Wikipedia article Van Cortlandtville School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1989 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 297 Locust Ave., Van Cortlandtville, 10567
When was it listed? April 1989
Category. building
Town. Cortlandt town
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 89000285 - 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

422 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 422 fires within 5 miles of Van Cortlandtville School between 1993 and 2020, burning about 442 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 48 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	254
Arson/incendiarism	48
Smoking	30
Natural	26
Debris and open burning	23
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Van Cortlandtville School: 18 past producers, 5 occurrences, 4 producers, 2 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Iron, Iron, Sulfur, Sulfur. 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
Cotton Rock Stilbite Deposit	Zeolites	Occurrence
Kinnaird Graphite Property Deposit	Graphite	Occurrence
Leardi Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Peekskill Area	Titanium, Metal, Iron, Aluminum	Occurrence
Peekskill Area Prospect	Titanium, Aluminum, Iron	Prospect
Phillips Mine	Molybdenum, Uranium	Occurrence	Replacement
Phillips Mine	Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Uranium	Past Producer	1865, 1880
Phillips Mine-Camp Smith Area	Cobalt, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, Uranium	Past Producer	1866
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite Mine	Iron, Uranium, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, Sulfur	Past Producer
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite, and Uranium Mine	Iron, Sulfur, Copper, Nickel, Uranium, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1839, 1865

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1892 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:48000
1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Peekskill quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Peekskill quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Old St. Peter's Church	0.1 miles	1973
John Jones Homestead	0.3 miles	1989
Van Cortlandt Upper Manor House	0.3 miles	1981
Beecher-McFadden Estate	1.0 miles	1987
Thomas Nelson House	1.3 miles	2001
Nelson Avenue-Fort Hill Historic District	1.5 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000285 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 250 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.