Lyon Mountain Railroad Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1911.

From the record

“Lyon Mountain station is a historic train station located at Lyon Mountain, Clinton County, New York. The station was built by the Delaware and Hudson Railway in 1903, and is a long one-story, rectangular, wood-frame building with Late Victorian style design elements.”
Wikipedia article Lyon Mountain station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 53 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 2002 · 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. 2914 First St., Lyon Mountain, 12952
When was it listed? February 2002
Category. building
Town. Dannemora town
National Register reference number. 02000005 - 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

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lyon Mountain Railroad Station between 2003 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	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
22 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 June 2013	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	LYON MT TRANSFORMER
24 May 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 May 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 May 2003	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
11 May 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Lyon Mountain Railroad Station: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Old Tailings Pile Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
81 Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1840
Burden Deposit	Iron	Past Producer	1875, 1967
Eighty-One Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1878
Parkhurst Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1889, 1892
Parkhurst Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1889
Phillips Vein	Iron	Past Producer	Replacement
Phillips Vein	Iron	Past Producer
Williams Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1850, 1871, 1967

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1911 USGS Lyon Mountain quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1913 USGS Lyon Mountain quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1931 USGS Lyon Mountain quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1968 USGS Lyon Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lake Champlain North 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
	Werrenrath Camp	5.8 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000005 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton County	All 53 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.