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Photograph of Weston Schoolhouse
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Weston Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Weston Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located at Weston in Schuyler County, New York. It is a one-room, one story, gable roofed frame building built about 1870.”

Wikipedia article Weston Schoolhouse, 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 listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 463 Cty Rte 23, Weston, 14837
  • When was it listed? October 1998
  • Category. building
  • Town. Tyrone town
  • National Register reference number. 98001241 - 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Weston Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 248 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural5
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
15 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
1 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Every fire recorded in Schuyler County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Weston Schoolhouse: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Best No.2 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
Bradford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sleve PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town of Tyrone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Tyrone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Schuyler County

Maps showing this location

7 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

1 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
Second Baptist Church of Wayne3.7 miles2014

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001241 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schuyler CountyAll 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.