Stillwater Mountain Fire Observation Station

Built in 1919. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1912.

From the record

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 2017 · category: Structure · built in 1919.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 2 sitess, 1 structure, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 1 mi. off Big Moose Rd., Webb, 13331
When was it listed? September 2017
Category. structure
Also known as. Fire Observation Stations of New York State Forest Preserve MPS
Town. Webb town
When was it built? 1919
National Register reference number. 100001624 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Stillwater Mountain Fire Observation Station between 1992 and 2018, burning about 43 acres in total. 4 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 ceremony	13
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	WOODS LAKE
4 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
27 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	STILLWATER SITE 7 FIRE
25 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	STILLWATER FIRE
25 September 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
18 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	STILLWATER 42 ISLAND
16 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
12 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Every fire recorded in Herkimer 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.

1912 USGS Number Four quadrangle1:62500
1915 USGS Number Four quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Number Four quadrangle1:62500 - 4 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 Watertown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Number Four quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001624 in Record Group 79.
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.