Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.
From the record
“Keene Valley Library is a historic library building located at Keene Valley in Essex County, New York. The original building was built in 1896, with additions completed in 1923, 1931, 1962, 1985, and 2017.”
Wikipedia article Keene Valley Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.00001528- 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
1895 to 1999
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18951999
Fires near this property
60 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Keene Valley Library
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 168 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony
20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
18
Natural
6
Debris and open burning
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Arson/incendiarism
3
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Smoking
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. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Keene Valley Library: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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