Keene Valley Country Club

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 2020 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 8 Country Club Ln., Keene Valley, 12943
When was it listed? August 2020
Category. district
Town. Keene town
National Register reference number. 100005480 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1895 to 1999

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Keene Valley Country Club, surveyed 1999

Topographic sheet covering Keene Valley Country Club, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Keene Valley Country Club between 1992 and 2020, burning about 168 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	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 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	GIANT MOUNTAIN FIRE
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	HURRICANE MT FIRE
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BLUEBERRY MOUNTAIN

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 Keene Valley Country Club: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Beede's Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Keene Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1872, 1880
Rogers Ore Bed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	Replacement
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hickey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hickey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Keene Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Keene Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1895 USGS Mt. Marcy quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1902 USGS Mt. Marcy quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Mount Marcy quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1979 USGS Keene Valley quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Lake Champlain South quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1999 USGS Keene Valley quadrangle1:25000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Notman Bridge	under 500 feet	1999
Keene Valley Library	under 500 feet	2000
Ranney Bridge	0.6 miles	1999
Uplands, The	0.7 miles	2016
Beer's Bridge	1.5 miles	1999
Slater Bridge	2.3 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005480 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.