Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“Jerusalem District No. 5 Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located at 3510 Old Jerusalem Rd in Wantagh, in Nassau County, New York, United States. It is owned by Levittown Union Free School District.”
Wikipedia article Jerusalem District No. 5 Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.96000204- 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.
Then and now
1897 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18971994
Fires near this property
1,556 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,556 fires within 5 miles of Jerusalem District No. 5 Schoolhouse
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 671 acres in total. 81 started naturally. 161 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
1077
Arson/incendiarism
161
Smoking
112
Natural
81
Equipment and vehicle use
41
Power generation/transmission/distribution
29
Railroad operations and maintenance
19
Debris and open burning
18
Misuse of fire by a minor
14
Recreation and ceremony
4
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 National Weather Service names
Levittown, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2016: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind.
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.
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.
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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