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Photograph of Rouses Point station
Photograph by Adam Moss from East Amherst, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Rouses Point Railroad Station

Built in 1889 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Rouses Point station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Rouses Point, New York, served by the single daily round trip of the Adirondack. The station building is a former Delaware and Hudson Railway constructed in 1889, with a one low-level side platform on the east side of the track.”

Wikipedia article Rouses Point station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 53 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1889, Romanesque Revival architecture.

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. 68 Pratt St., Rouses Point, 12979
  • When was it listed? January 2005
  • Category. building
  • Town. Champlain town
  • When was it built? 1889
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 04001454 - 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

1895 to 2000

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Rouses Point Railroad Station, surveyed 2000
Topographic sheet covering Rouses Point Railroad Station, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

112 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Rouses Point Railroad Station between 2001 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined59
Arson/incendiarism25
Debris and open burning12
Natural9
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Rouses Point Railroad Station: 5 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Champlain MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Champlain Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Champlain Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStonePast ProducerSurface
Unnamed QuarryStonePast ProducerSurface
Unnamed QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Maps showing this location

13 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

3 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001454 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton CountyAll 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.