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Gooley Club

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Gooley Club Rd., Newcomb, 12852
  • When was it listed? May 2018
  • Category. district
  • Town. Minerva town
  • National Register reference number. 100002383 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1898 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Gooley Club, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Gooley Club, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Gooley Club between 2006 and 2018, burning about 3 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersTRIPOD
20 July 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 July 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 May 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 May 2008Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 October 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersESSEX CHAIN

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gooley Club: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Garnet. 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
Bullhead Pond DepositGarnetPast Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this property

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newcomb, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$50,000Several acres of straight-line wind damage with many pines snapped.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$10,000Several trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$10,000Several trees and power lines down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$10,000Numerous trees and power lines down along Route 28N in Newcomb.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$5,000Convective winds downed trees and utility lines.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$5,000A few trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$5,000Trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$5,000no account filed
June 2011HailNewcomb-Dime to penny size hail reported.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindNewcomb-A hundred or so trees blown down by apparent microburst in the vicinity of a Ranger station near Shattuck Clearing.
May 2009HailNewcomb-Penny size hail reported at Newcomb Visitor Center.

Every storm recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100002383 in Record Group 79.
Essex CountyAll 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.
  • 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.