District School No. 20

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“District School No. 20 is a historic one-room school building located at Hounsfield in Jefferson County, New York. It is a one-story, rectangular one room structure built about 1835 of rubble Chaumont limestone.”
Wikipedia article District School No. 20, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson 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. NY 3, S of Co. Rd. 75, Hounsfield, 13685
When was it listed? October 1989
Category. building
Also known as. Hounsfield MRA
Town. Hounsfield town
National Register reference number. 89001619 - 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

74 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of District School No. 20 between 2002 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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	37
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	9
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1893 USGS Sackets Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Sackets Harbor quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1895 USGS Sacketts Harbor quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1943 USGS Sackets Harbor quadrangle1:31680
1959 USGS Sackets Harbor quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Pulaski quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
Bedford Creek Bridge	1.3 miles	1989
Sackets Harbor Village Historic District	1.5 miles	1983
Elisha Camp House	1.6 miles	1973
Union Hotel	1.7 miles	1972
Sackets Harbor Battlefield	1.8 miles	1974
Stephen Simmons House	1.8 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89001619 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 144 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.