North-Sprague Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 10 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: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 327 Cty. Rd. 55 (Walker Rd.), Essex, 12993
When was it listed? October 2020
Category. building
Town. Essex town
National Register reference number. 100005707 - 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 North-Sprague Farm, surveyed 1999

Topographic sheet covering North-Sprague Farm, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

73 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of North-Sprague Farm between 2002 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
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 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	SPLIT ROCK MT FIRE
7 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Essex 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 North-Sprague Farm: 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Granite. 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
Tupper Lake Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Westport Area	Titanium, Metal, Iron	Occurrence
L E Dempster Farm Prospect	Titanium, Iron	Prospect
Snake Den Harbor Deposit	Titanium, Iron	Occurrence
Westport Area Prospect	Titanium, Iron	Prospect
Split Rock Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Replacement

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this property

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Essex, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Essex	$15,000	Trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds across Essex and Route 22 closed north of the Ferry Dock.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Essex	$10,000	Several trees reported downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Essex	$10,000	Trees and powerlines downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Essex	$10,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Essex	$2,000	Several trees down.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Essex	$2,000	A few trees and branches downed by thunderstorm winds. Also, half dollar size hail reported.
May 2012	Hail	Essex	-	Penny size hail reported.

Every storm recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

10 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 Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1941 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1980 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:25000
1986 USGS Lake Champlain South quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1999 USGS Willsboro 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
Essex County Home and Farm	1.9 miles	1982
First Congregational and Presbyterian Society Church of Westport	2.6 miles	1988
Church of the Nazarene	3.3 miles	1973
Octagonal Schoolhouse	3.4 miles	1973
Lake View Grange No. 970	5.5 miles	2013
Essex County Fairgrounds	5.5 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005707 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.
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.