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Clare Town Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3441 CR 27, Clare, 13684
  • When was it listed? December 2004
  • Category. building
  • Town. Clare town
  • National Register reference number. 04001343 - 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

1915 to 1948

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Clare Town Hall, surveyed 1948
Topographic sheet covering Clare Town Hall, surveyed 1915

Fires near this property

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Clare Town Hall between 1993 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
31 August 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
21 August 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
1 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 June 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 May 1995Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Clare Town Hall: 5 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Talc-Soapstone, Molybdenum, Copper, Gemstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
RussellMolybdenum, CopperOccurrenceContact Metamorphic
West Pierrepont Tourmaline DepositGemstoneOccurrence
Mine Number 1 and MillTalc-SoapstonePast ProducerTalc
Number 2 MineTalc-SoapstonePast ProducerTalc
Allen Farm DepositIronOccurrence
Allen Farm ProspectsIronProspect
Mc Collum Farm ProspectIronOccurrence
Mccollum Farm DepositIronProspect
Obrien Farm DepositIronProspect
White Place AnomalyIronOccurrence1945

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence 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.

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 PropertyDistance Listed
Russell Town Hall4.7 miles1996
Pierrepont Town Buildings7.7 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001343 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lawrence CountyAll 83 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.