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one of 94 National Register listings in Berkshire County · listed in 2020 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Berkshire County.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Tyringham Center School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 2 Church Rd., Tyringham, 01264
- When was it listed? 2020-11-06
- Category. building
- Township. Tyringham town
- National Register reference number. 100005764 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
6 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Tyringham Center School between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 6 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 April 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 21 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 16 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 8 October 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 2,193 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,193 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tyringham Center School between 1833 and 1975: 1,118 Animalia, 761 Plantae, 306 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Brown, A. E. Treat, A. K. Harrison and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt. | 1900 | P. B. Weatherbee | |
 | Betula alleghaniensis Britton | 1833 | Collector unknown | |
 | Betula pumila L. | 1833 | Collector unspecified | |
 | Carex utriculata Boott | 1833 | W. L. Worcester | |
 | Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore | 1833 | Collector unknown | |
 | Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman | 1833 | Collector unknown | |
 | Parnassia caroliniana Michx. | 1834 | not recorded | |
 | Platanthera peramoena A.Gray | 1863 | J. T. Stewart | Glendale |
 | Spiranthes magnicamporum Sheviak | 1863 | J. T. Stewart | Glendale |
 | Homalia trichomanoides (Hedw.) Schimp. | 1867 | E. C. Howe | |
 | Acer saccharum Marshall | 1897 | Vail, A.M. | Tyringham |
 | Acer spicatum Lam. | 1897 | Vail, A.M. | Vicinity of Tyringham |
All 2,193 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Tyringham Center School: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Marble, Dimension, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Lime Corp | Calcium | Past Producer | Calcite | |
| Lee Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Lee Marble Inc Qy & Plant | Marble, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Lee White Marble Quarry | Marble, Dimension | Past Producer | Metamorphic | |
| Abby Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Abby and Sons Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| East Lee Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tyringham, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyringham | - | Trees were reported down on Webster Road. |
| February 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyringham | - | Around 100 trees were snapped or uprooted. Some were snapped 20-25 feet above the ground. All were blown in the same direction. The damage swath was around 100 yards in diameter. Minor damage was also reported to a house. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyringham | - | Trees were reported down on a car in Tyringham due to thunderstorm winds. The downed trees blocked a roadway. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyringham | - | Numerous trees were reported blown down. |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Methodist Episcopal Society of Tyringham | under 500 feet | 2000 |
 | Tyringham Library | 0.1 miles | 2018 |
 | Merrell Tavern | 4.6 miles | 1972 |
 | Hyde House | 4.8 miles | 1976 |
 | Hyde School | 4.9 miles | 2004 |
 | Lee Station | 5.0 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005764 in Record Group 79. |
| Berkshire County | All 94 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.
- Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
- 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.