Lee School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Lee School is a historic one-room school building located at Montour in Schuyler County, New York, United States. It is a one-room, one story, gable roofed frame building built in 1884.”
Wikipedia article Lee School (Montour, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Schuyler County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 14, Montour, 14864
When was it listed? May 1998
Category. building
Town. Montour town
National Register reference number. 98000572 - 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

1898 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Lee School, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet covering Lee School, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

103 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Lee School between 2000 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 15 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	42
Debris and open burning	21
Arson/incendiarism	15
Natural	14
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Schuyler County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Lee School: 13 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Bromine, Natural Gas. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
(Facility) Watkins Glen Well and Refinery	Bromine	Plant	Brine
G.G.Hill Well	Salt, Natural Gas	Past Producer
Federal Land Bank No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Unnamed Salt Well	Salt	Past Producer
Unnamed Salt Wells	Salt	Past Producer
Watkins Glen Well	Salt	Past Producer
Watkins Plant & Well	Salt	Plant
Watkins Salt Co.Well No.11	Salt	Past Producer
Barber Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Barber Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Schuyler County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1898 USGS Watkins Glen quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Watkins quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1905 USGS Watkins Glen quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Montour Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Montour Falls quadrangle1:24000
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Montour Falls Historic District	1.2 miles	1978
Brick Tavern Stand	1.4 miles	1994
Montour Falls Union Grammar School	1.6 miles	2012
Schuyler County Courthouse Complex	3.7 miles	1974
Watkins Glen High School	3.7 miles	2015
US Post Office-Watkins Glen	3.9 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000572 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schuyler County	All 20 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.