BlockBefore
Photograph of St. William's Catholic Church
Photograph by H. M. Beach, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. William's Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“William's Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church on Long Point on Raquette Lake in Raquette Lake, Hamilton County, New York. The building and grounds are no longer part of the Catholic Church/Ogdensburg diocese but are maintained by a nonprofit organization.”

Wikipedia article St. William's Catholic Church (Long Lake, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Long Point on Raquette Lake, Long Lake, 13436
  • When was it listed? January 2005
  • Category. building
  • Town. Long Lake town
  • Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
  • Architect. J. Cleaveland Cady
  • National Register reference number. 04001446 - 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

1903 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering St. William's Catholic Church, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering St. William's Catholic Church, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

19 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of St. William's Catholic Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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 ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Debris and open burning2

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
8 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHENS & CHICKENS
7 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersNORTH POINT
5 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersMARION RIVER
4 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersOUTLET 2 FIRE
23 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersUC FIRE
23 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersOUTLET FIRE
23 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSARGENT POND FIRE
19 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this property

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Lake, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLong Lake$500,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLong Lake$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindLong Lake$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindLong Lake$5,000no account filed
July 2024Flash FloodLong Lake$500New York Department of Highways reported the closure of Route 30 in both directions due to water flowing across the roadway. Additionally, a video taken by a member of the public showed water flowing rapidly out of Minnow Pond, adjacent to Route 30, crossing the roadway.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLong Lake-Local law enforcement reported a tree down on McIntyre Boulevard.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindLong Lake-Trees were downed 2 miles west-northwest of Long Lake.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindLong Lake-Numerous trees were uprooted with wires also downed along Route 30 in Long Lake.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLong Lake-Trees were reported down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLong Lake-Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Long Lake.
April 2011FloodLong Lake-Route 30 was closed due to high water in the Hamlet of Long Lake between Route 28 and Rice Road.
May 2011HailLong Lake-Golf ball size hail was reported during a thunderstorm at the Lake Eaton Campground.
May 2011HailLong Lake-Half dollar size hail was reported in Long Lake during a thunderstorm.
May 2011FloodLong Lake-Route 30 in was closed due to high water in the Hamlet of Long Lake between Route 28 and Rice Road.
August 2007HailLong Lake-Nickel size hail was reported at the Forked Lake Public Campground near Long Lake.
May 2007HailLong Lake-A thunderstorm produced hail estimated at 1.50 inches in diameter at Long Lake.
May 2006HailLong Lake-A trained spotter reported three-quarter-inch hail in Long Lake.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton County

Maps showing this location

10 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

6 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
Echo Camp0.2 miles1986
Camp Pine Knot0.3 miles1986
Whelan Camp1.7 miles1989
Sagamore4.2 miles1976
Sagamore Lodge (Boundary Increase)4.2 miles1986
Camp Uncas4.9 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001446 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton CountyAll 24 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.