Village of Antwerp Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1911.

From the record

“Village of Antwerp Historic District is a national historic district located at Antwerp in Jefferson County, New York. The district includes 241 contributing buildings, four contributing sites, one contributing structure, and one contributing object.”
Wikipedia article Village of Antwerp Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly Main, Depot, Maple, VanBuren, Mechanic, Fulton, Academy and Washington Sts., Lexington, Hoyt & Madison Aves., Antwerp, 13608
When was it listed? April 2001
Category. district
Town. Antwerp town
National Register reference number. 01000389 - 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

120 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Village of Antwerp Historic District between 2002 and 2017, burning about 102 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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	99
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Village of Antwerp Historic District: 9 occurrences, 6 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite, Sulfur. 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
Morgan Prospect	Iron, Sulfur	Past Producer
Oxbow Southwest Prospect	Sulfur	Occurrence
Wight Prospect	Sulfur	Occurrence
Dickson Prospect	Sulfur-Pyrite	Occurrence
Keene Prospect	Sulfur-Pyrite	Occurrence
Morgan Prospect	Sulfur-Pyrite	Occurrence	Surface
Oxbow Southwest Prospect	Sulfur-Pyrite	Occurrence
Wight Prospect	Sulfur-Pyrite	Occurrence
Dickson Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1858, 1910
Dickson Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Antwerp, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2005	Flash Flood	Antwerp	$15,000	no account filed
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Antwerp	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Antwerp	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Antwerp	$10,000	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Antwerp	$10,000	no account filed
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Antwerp	$8,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Antwerp	$5,000	no account filed
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Antwerp	$2,000	Trees and wires downed in the Town of Antwerp.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Antwerp	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Antwerp	$2,000	Trees and wires down.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Antwerp	$1,000	Trees and wires were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1911 USGS Antwerp quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Antwerp quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Antwerp quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Antwerp quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gouverneur quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Dr. Abner Benton House	6.4 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000389 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 144 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.
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.