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Photograph of District School No. 14
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

District School No. 14

Built in 1925 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“The former District School No. 14 building is located on Academy Street in Pine Hill, New York, United States. It is a concrete-sided frame building erected in the mid-1920s.”

Wikipedia article District School No. 14, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1925, Colonial Revival architecture.

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. Academy St., S of jct. with Birch Cr. Rd., Pine Hill, 12465
  • When was it listed? February 1997
  • Category. building
  • Town. Shandaken town
  • When was it built? 1925
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 97000111 - 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

29 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of District School No. 14 between 2000 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
13 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.6 acresFire Department of New YorkCHANTREL FIRE
3 May 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
29 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
27 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Hill, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
May 2004Thunderstorm WindPine Hill$500,000Cost estimated due to wind damage to many structures and flooding of roadways.
October 2021FloodPine Hill-Flooding was observed along residential homes near the Hamlet of Pine Hill.
May 2012HailPine Hill-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm at the Belleayre Ski Area.

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Morton Memorial Libraryunder 500 feet1997
Elm Street Stone Arch Bridge0.1 miles1996
Pine Hill Historic District0.1 miles2012
Ulster House Hotel0.1 miles2002
Mill Street Stone Arch Bridge0.2 miles1996
Balsam Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station6.6 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000111 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster CountyAll 209 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.