Whiteface Veterans Memorial Highway Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 2008 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. NY 431, New York, 12997
When was it listed? October 2008
Category. district
Town. Wilmington town
National Register reference number. 06001147 - 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

61 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Whiteface Veterans Memorial Highway Complex between 1993 and 2020, burning about 551 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined	22
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	8
Debris and open burning	6
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	New York Forest Rangers	FAIRVIEW TERRACE
9 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2015	Natural	2.1 acres	New York Forest Rangers	WINCH POND FIRE
25 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
31 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	WARREN POND FIRE
3 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2007	Natural	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Whiteface Veterans Memorial Highway Complex: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	Replacement
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer	1910, 1950
Wilmington Prospect	Graphite	Occurrence	Surface
Wilmington Prospect	Graphite	Prospect
Demacy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wilmington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wilmington Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1896 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1978 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:25000
1986 USGS Lake Champlain South quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Wilmington Bridge	2.6 miles	1999
Wellscroft	5.5 miles	2004
Keith and Branch Ford Motors Factory and Showroom	5.5 miles	2013
Wells Memorial Library	5.5 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001147 in Record Group 79.
Essex County	All 114 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.