Built in 1858 in the Greek Revival architecture. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2021. 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.
From the record
“The East Otis Schoolhouse is a historic school building at 2 Old Blandford Road in Otis, Massachusetts. Built before 1856, the one-room schoolhouse served the town until 1949, after which time it has sat largely vacant and unused.”
Wikipedia article East Otis Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 94 National Register listings in Berkshire County · listed in 2021 · category: Building · built in 1858, Greek Revival architecture · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Berkshire County.
National Register reference number. 100006595 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
9 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 9 fires within 5 miles of East Otis Schoolhouse between
2015 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony
3
Debris and open burning
3
Natural
1
Equipment and vehicle use
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 794 specimens
collected within 10 miles of East Otis Schoolhouse between 1872 and
1975: 362 Plantae, 263 Animalia, 167 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & A. C. Seymour, A. Pealey 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of East Otis Schoolhouse: 3 producers, 3 past producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Otis, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
During the afternoon of November 4, a line of showers and embedded thunderstorms crossed western Massachusetts. At Otis, a thunderstorm downed several trees and ripped shingles off the roof of a home.
Route 8 was reported closed due to ice chunks in the road left over from an ice jam that broke on the West Branch of the Farmington River. The road was reopened after the ice chunks were cleared.
Numerous trees were reported down near Otis due to strong thunderstorm winds.||A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team determined that straight line winds within a thunderstorm snapped and uprooted numerous trees, with peak winds estimated between 85 and 105 mph.
Nickel to quarter size hail was reported in Otis during a thunderstorm. The hail initially was nickel size at approximately 2047 EST, then increased to quarter size at 2051 EST.
Quarter size hail was reported on Route 8 in Otis during a thunderstorm. In addition, numerous trees were reported down from strong thunderstorm winds.
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
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.
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.
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