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Photograph of Clymer District School No. 5
Photograph by Yhoitink, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Clymer District School No. 5

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Clymer District School No. 5, also known as the Little Red Schoolhouse, is a historic one-room school building located in Clymer, Chautauqua County, New York. It was designed and built around 1853 in the vernacular Greek Revival style.”

Wikipedia article Clymer District School No. 5, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Chautauqua County · listed in 1994 · 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 2 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 7929 Clymer Center Rd. (Co. Rt. 613), Clymer, 14767
  • When was it listed? August 1994
  • Category. building
  • Town. Clymer town
  • National Register reference number. 94001004 - 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

20 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Clymer District School No. 5 between 2002 and 2019, burning about 23 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2003Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 May 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest RangersWEEKS RD FIRE
30 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 April 2007Debris and open burning2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this property

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clymer, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003Flash FloodClymer$150,000no account filed
August 2003LightningNorth Clymer$25,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindClymer$20,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindClymer$15,000no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindClymer$15,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindClymer$15,000no account filed
September 2016Thunderstorm WindClymer$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindNorth Clymer$10,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindClymer$10,000no account filed
March 2026Thunderstorm WindNorth Clymer$5,000Two utility poles and three lines downed. 180 Upper Road.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindClymer$2,000Trees and wires were reported down.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindClymer$1,000A tree was reported down onto power lines.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindClymer$500A tree was reported down onto Clymer-Sherman Road in Clymer.
May 2022Flash FloodClymer-Flash flooding was reported on a portion of Plank and Corry Roads south of Clymer.

Every storm recorded in Chautauqua 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94001004 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chautauqua CountyAll 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.
  • 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.