School No. 7

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“School No. 7 is a historic school building located at Dunkirk in Chautauqua County, New York. It is significant as a one-story school building of the early 20th century.”
Wikipedia article School No. 7 (Dunkirk, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Chautauqua County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of E. Lake Shore Dr. and N. Serval St., Dunkirk, 14048
When was it listed? March 1992
Category. building
City. Dunkirk city
National Register reference number. 92000068 - 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

219 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of School No. 7 between 2000 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 35 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	115
Debris and open burning	39
Arson/incendiarism	35
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	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 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of School No. 7: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Allegheny Ludlum/ Dunkirk, N.Y.	Iron	Plant

Every working recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this property

31 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunkirk, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 heavy snow. 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
January 1999	Heavy Snow	Dunkirk	$150,000	no account filed
November 1999	Flash Flood	Dunkirk	$100,000	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$45,000	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$35,000	An early morning thunderstorm brought high winds to the county. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. In Cassadaga, a large uprooted tree crushed a pickup truck.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds blew off the storage door to a gas station garage.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$15,000	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$15,000	no account filed
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$15,000	no account filed
May 2004	Flash Flood	Dunkirk	$15,000	no account filed
April 2002	Flash Flood	Dunkirk	$15,000	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Dunkirk	$15,000	no account filed
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$12,000	no account filed
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Dunkirk	$10,000	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$10,000	no account filed
October 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$10,000	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$10,000	no account filed
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$8,000	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Dunkirk	$8,000	no account filed
July 2018	Flash Flood	Dunkirk	$5,000	Significant flooding of the Chautauqua County Fairgrounds, closing Waldorff Road.
June 2011	Hail	Dunkirk	$5,000	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Dunkirk	$5,000	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$3,000	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$2,500	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	$2,000	Multiple trees were downed.
July 2021	Flood	Dunkirk	-	Minor flooding was reported on Waldorf Road.
July 2018	Heavy Rain	Dunkirk	-	Rainfall total of 3.77 inches in 24 hours.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	-	no account filed
April 2019	Hail	Dunkirk	-	no account filed
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunkirk	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Dunkirk	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chautauqua County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1900 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1954 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Jamestown 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
US Post Office-Dunkirk	1.3 miles	1988
Dunkirk Light	1.9 miles	1984
Point Gratiot Lighthouse Complex	1.9 miles	1979
US Post Office-Fredonia	3.9 miles	1988
Fredonia Commons Historic District	3.9 miles	1978
Levi J. and Frances A. Pierce House	7.5 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000068 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chautauqua County	All 50 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.