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Glen Haven District No. 4 School and Public Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Glen Haven District No. 4 School and Public Library is a historic school and library building located at Fair Haven in Cortland County, New York. It is a one-story irregularly shaped structure constructed in 1901 in the Shingle Style.”

Wikipedia article Glen Haven District No. 4 School and Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Cortland 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. 7325 Fair Haven Rd., Fair Haven, 13077
  • When was it listed? May 1997
  • Category. building
  • Town. Scott town
  • Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
  • National Register reference number. 97000420 - 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Glen Haven District No. 4 School and Public Library between 2002 and 2018, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 July 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Cortland 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 Glen Haven District No. 4 School and Public Library: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
O'Toole PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cortland County

Storms near this property

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fair Haven, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2025: 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 2025Thunderstorm WindFair Haven$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted or snapped multiple trees in the area.

Every storm recorded in Cortland County

Maps showing this location

10 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

2 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
First Presbyterian Church6.4 miles2002
Little York Pavilion6.8 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000420 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cortland CountyAll 31 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.