Covewood Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Covewood Lodge is a historic summer camp complex located at Big Moose Lake in Herkimer County, New York. It was built during the 1920s and consists of the main lodge surrounded by 18 historic cottages.”
Wikipedia article Covewood Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 120 Covewood Lodge Rd., Big Moose, 13331
When was it listed? May 2004
Category. building
Town. Webb town
National Register reference number. 04000435 - 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

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Covewood Lodge between 2002 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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	4
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
7 September 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	TERROR LAKE
23 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	CASCADE LAKE FIRE
8 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SITE 8 FIRE
17 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	RUSSIAN LAKE FIRE
25 July 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 June 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 June 2011	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Moose, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2004: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Moose	$6,000	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Moose	$5,000	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Big Moose	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Herkimer 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.

1903 USGS Big Moose quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Big Moose quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Eagle Bay quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Camp Veery	1.0 miles	2023
	Big Moose Community Chapel	1.3 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000435 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Herkimer County	All 74 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.
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.