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East Nassau Central School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“East Nassau Central School is a historic school building located at East Nassau in Rensselaer County, New York. It was built in 1930 and is a two-story, steel frame and concrete block building with a brick veneer in the Classical Revival style.”

Wikipedia article East Nassau Central School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 128 National Register listings published here for Rensselaer County · listed in 1997 · 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. 37 Garfield Rd., East Nassau, 12062
  • When was it listed? May 1997
  • Category. building
  • Town. Nassau town
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 97000418 - 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

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of East Nassau Central School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined58
Debris and open burning29
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 July 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Nassau, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 4 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Thunderstorm WindEast Nassau-Route 20 was closed between Bliss School House Road and Route 66 due to downed trees and wires in the town of Nassau as a result of thunderstorm winds.
June 2011HailEast Nassau-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in East Nassau.
June 2007HailEast Nassau-Nickel size hail fell in East Nassau.
August 2004HailEast Nassau-no account filed
June 2000HailEast Nassau-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer County

Maps showing this location

14 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

5 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
Church Street Historic District5.2 miles1978
Chatham Street Row5.4 miles1978
Albany Avenue Historic District5.6 miles1978
Henry Tunis Smith Farm5.9 miles1975
Newton-Taber-Martin Farm6.4 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000418 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rensselaer CountyAll 128 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.